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...keep his Muscle Shoals lobby alive. He put this sum into his stock margin account. In June he obtained from Union Carbide another "contribution" of $14,100 which also went to Blyth & Bonner, as margin for the purchase of $46,000 worth of stocks, from which he secured a profit of $526. Not until two months after he received Union Carbide's second contribution had he paid over to T. R. I. A. the full $36,100, in instalments...
...this from fear of the audience rather than from fear of the censor. Unhappily the professional stage is governed by the need of making money and the temptation to play down to the box-office. The Dramatic Club has neither to pay its actors, nor to make a profit, and so is relatively free to experiment to advance the drama. It is possible to experiment with old plays, as well as with those of other countries: but merely to reproduce the work of contemporary and local professional companies is to contribute very little to the theatre. Henry C. Friend...
...Parsee lets his sacred flame die out, he is exceedingly upset, for the Parsee's flame is the Parsee's religion. Last week a great U.S. industry, in which Fire is a vital pillar of the structure of Profit, was horrified by the suggestion that it neglect its flames once a week...
...game. Like all oldtime fox trappers, Charlie Dalton was anxious to catch a "nigger"-not a black fox but a "red" fox preternaturally dark by some accident of heredity. Having caught several such, he bought three pairs from other trappers. Instead of selling their skins for a proportionately large profit, Charlie Dalton bred them, started the first known silver fox farm for breeding purposes and the Dalton strain from which the best captive silver foxes are descended...
...ready for a wholesale reduction of armaments. The observer who looks at the present London parley is forced to come to the conclusion that the pre-war mentality has not yet been discarded, with its jingoistic policy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Profit from industry gained on such basis is profit without honor in any country...