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Royal Dutch also announced a 1929 earning report, showing a net of approximately $50,588,000, said however that the profit per ton of oil produced was steadily decreasing...
...company one of the largest paper producers in the East. In 1920 Mr. Carlisle & syndicate bought Northern New York Utilities, Inc., which in 1926 became a portion of Northeastern Power Corp. Northeastern operated in the extreme north and east of New York state and in 1928 earned a profit of slightly less than $3,000,000. In June 1929, Northeastern Power, together with Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power and Mohawk Hudson Power were merged into the present Niagara-Hudson and which in 1929 supplied about 65% of the electric power consumed in New York State. In January 1929, the Morgan...
...worth realizing,--and I believe this to be the case for the prospective college Freshman as well as for his non-academic classmate,--the attitude and interest of the college are of great importance at this juncture. There is need for earlier identification of those pupils who will probably profit by the type of training offered by the college, of greater flexibility in the arrangement of their programs of study for this period, of such cooperation that the last two years of the secondary course and the freshman year in college may be viewed together and planned as successive sections...
...reference to the mooted question of linguistics in the curriculum of the secondary school. By nature and profession I am disposed to maintain the educative values in this branch of study although I recognize that there is a certain type mind which is not so constituted as to profit largely by these values. But I am speaking here of the student of average ability in this department. Such an individual can hardly develop oral command of a foreign tongue, aside from the stereotyped phrases of classroom and textbook, in the time that is reasonably available for the study and practice...
...evening companion, the Telegram, offered an outlet for Byoir's energy, his knack for diplomacy, his natural urge for influence. He bought the Post and Telegram from Rafael R. Govin, publisher of El Mundo, principal Cuban daily. The same day, says legend, he refused an offer and a profit of $250,000 from Lord Rothermere...