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Immediate plum of this great air fight: a Government airmail contract which United, having operated its group at a profit during the past hectic year (TIME, March 31), feels justified in trying to acquire, but which Curtiss-Keys, having been efficient managers, might ultimately retrieve...
Ford's earnings showed a remarkable come-back with a profit of $81,797,000 or $473 a share. While this is below 1922's ecord ($119,298,000) and some other years, it presents a brilliant contrast to the $72,221,000 loss during 1928 and $42,786,000 loss of 1927 when models were being changed. Total assets of the company came...
...seems the theater racketeers have discovered that speculation does not pay--if everybody speculates. So the song is ended. But they may, alast find out under the new system that when everyone is honest, a single scofflaw can gambol with considerable profit in the green pastures of hey-hey. Which leads to the conclusion that only if there is honor among theives can the public not "be damned...
Many an interior decorator has made profit and reputation by designing and outfitting elaborate drinking rooms in smart U. S. homes (TIME, Sept. 9). For homes in the medium income brackets, specially constructed bars are purchasable at about $200. Last week the Woodworkers' Guild, No. 103 Lafayette St., Manhattan, reasoning that liquor drinking also occurs in homes at the bottom of the income scale, and that poor people might also prefer to imbibe in stylish and fashionable surroundings, offered such drinkers a collapsible bar with a real brass rail...
...House to shave. No more would Benton Harbor street car conductors be confused with the motormen by reason of their identical beards (the House of David owns Benton Harbor's trolley lines). No more would the House's famed, crack baseball nine achieve added reputation and profit in its journeys throughout the U. S. from the novelty of long-bearded gentlemen scrambling for flies, sliding for bases...