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...never," said he, "tell shareholders how the balance of profit and loss is made up. . . . It is not easy for the average man to understand...
...refuge from hayfever and a base for fishing. The few Indians and whites in the neighborhood have found in him their patron in sickness and want. Serious want comes to the Canadian backwoods families about every ten years. The game upon which they depend for food and profit runs through ten-year cycles of alternate scarcity and plenty. It was to help many Canadians besides his neighbors that Mr. Amory played host to the conference...
...interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff of Pittsburgh's Negro Courier. None of the actors in Heaven Bound receives wages. The first production cost $155, realized a fat profit for Big Bethel's trustee fund with admissions at 25?. Not very many white people have yet seen Heaven Bound but most of those who have were observed to look sorry with everyone else for the Wayward Girl, smile and hum in their throats when the Saints started singing...
...profit made by Vacuum in 1929, all except $4,200,000 came from its foreign business...
...Nobody could accuse Heywood Broun of misanthropy. Weighed down by public woe, he has run for Congress on the Socialist ticket, flayed Mayor Walker in his World-Telegram colyum, and now, saddened by the plight of the jobless actors, has staged a cooperative revue. None but the players can profit. If the show succeeds they will be paid; if not they will be no worse off than before. The show's backers expect no profits...