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...some months past foreign speculators have been trying to force the franc up. They would profit by an upsurge, and by the downsurge sure to follow; and in the meantime France would lose immeasurably through the disruption of business occasioned by unsteady currency. Just now France sits fiscally pretty. Her trade balance is favorable. The Treasury has recently refunded advances previously made to it by the Bank of France to the amount of 900,000,000 francs. Such are the blessings which have flowed from holding the franc steady at its present value for almost two years (TIME...
When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...
...Travis of Oakland, Calif., go the kudos and the profit of arranging for the transcontinental motor stage system. He is president of the California Transit Co., which maintains a daily bus service between Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., 670 miles. That route is the spine of the score of bus lines it operates along the Pacific Coast. Last year its revenues were...
Last week the same man, become a politic business man, said: "It will be my purpose and the function of the institute to provide for intelligent individual business management, operating independently, an opportunity to do business at a fair profit and on a basis of wholesome competition, and to see that the industry conducts itself entirely within the law, eliminates unfair trade practices and provides a maximum of service both to the industry and to the public...
...some-what larger number were in favor of dropping one language from the requirements and concentrating attention on the other. Many of these looked back with little pleasure on an elementary French or German course in their Freshman year from which they believed themselves to have derived little profit...