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...Cudahy added that his cotton would be held for one year or until the price reached 10? per Ib. At that level a $660,000 profit would be shown for the Cudahy Packing...
Last week in Philadelphia U. S. Customs officials discovered a ten-acre patch of marijuana. Marketed in cigarets it would have yielded a $125,000 profit.* Though it was apparently growing wild, the agents were sure so much marijuana had not sprung up by chance. Carefully guarding the secret of its location, they hurried to the Board of Health, had the marijuana patch declared a menace to public health and ordered burned with great public stench...
...sell none of it for at least a year. After that time the Board would market its coffee at the rate of 62,500 bags per month through "established channels." If coffee prices rise in the next twelve months the Farm Board will be able to show a worthwhile profit on the swap...
...important buys during 1929 was Berkey & Gay, a Grand Rapids company making high class general furniture. The concern was one of the oldest in Grand Rapids and its $9,000,000-a-year sales volume made it one of the biggest. It was not operating at a profit because the furniture business then, as now, was confused and upset. Zalmon Gilbert Simmons, president of Simmons Co., planned not only to make his company potent in furniture but to bring stability and prosperity to the entire industry. In great advertisements in the Grand Rapids press he stated: "It is my desire...
...born in 1893). Ruth Suckow was a writing child. After she was graduated from the University of Denver she taught there for a while, then took to beekeeping. For six years she was manager-owner of the Orchard Apiary at Earlville, la., ran it at a profit. Henry Louis Mencken, then co-editor of Smart Set, bought her first stories, which pleased him considerably. Soon she switched the bees from their hives to her bonnet, where they have since buzzed to good effect. Two years ago she married one Ferner Nuhn of Cedar Falls, la. She lives in Manhattan, where...