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...other hand, what doth it profit a man if he ignores a piteous Lampoon to fling his wit to the night winds of Boston? And how regrettable the spectacle of him who forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still...
This means that Il Progresso, with a circulation of 81,000, undoubtedly shows a profit of $200,000 a year; that foreign language newspapers are phenomenally valuable properties...
...this amount. The American banking group, headed by Lee, Higginson,* offered American certificates representing debentures of 20 kronor par value at $28.14. In the first day's trading in Manhattan they rose to about $35. Lucky investors who had advance orders confirmed by the bankers realized a huge profit in a few hours...
...Mercantile Corp. won the non and lucrative U. S. stamped envelope contract, making a tidy profit for Stockholder Myron Charles Taylor, now a potent U. S. Steel executive.* Not until 1917 was the contract wrested away from the Mercantile Corp. In that year, the Middle West Supply Co. submitted low bid. And as this contract is not transferable, the only way for the Mercantile Corp. and Stockholder Taylor to regain it was to buy the Middle West Supply Co. This they did. They were not again disturbed in its possession until last week...
...Dutch cinchona tree plantations. The British have small plantations in India. The northern Andes, particularly in Ecuador, where the trees are native, now produce little of the bark. The Indians, who must chop their paths through jungles to reach the isolated cinchona groves, find the labor too hard for profit. Consequently the Dutch have been able to regulate the world cinchona bark and quinine trade very much as they pleased...