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Young Sinclair's logs brought a profit. He sank the money in an Oklahoma oil pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...
...Tunney will fight Tom Heeney in July" . . . "Where?" ... "I don't know yet boys, maybe in London." . . . "But if you put it on in London how will you pay the British tax and still have profit enough to satisfy your stockholders?" ... "I don't know yet, boys." . . . "What about George Godfrey?" . . . "Well, but Heeney ..." ... "What about Dempsey?" . . . "He's through...
...number of colleges on the Pacific Coast. It is yet too early for judgement of the experiment in the same definite terms which made ascertainable the success of the corresponding venture in military science. Marked, however, by the shaping of study to the pleasure as well as profit of the student, the nearing close of the second year of naval science at Harvard may be said to have given it prestige among those who know the course, and respect among those who see it assuming form as an integral part of the Harvard curriculum...
Five thousand employes of Procter & Gamble Co. went to Music Hall, in Cincinnati, there to attend the annual celebration attendant upon the distribution of profit-sharing dividend checks. The sum of $700,501, reputedly the largest ever given to employes by any company, was divided. The 5,000 Cincinnatians received half; Ivory Soap workers in Macon, Ga., Manhattan, Chicago & Kansas City, Mo., got the rest...
Alexander Legge, president of the International Harvester Co. of America, (farm implements, wagons, tractors, trucks) announced a net profit for 1927 of $23,359,215 (1926 profits amounted to $22,658,891); prophesied that "the company's future in the present 'power farming' era seems secure...