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...much for this. Last August the stockholders were permitted to subscribe to one new share for every five shares held, at $80 per share, thus increasing the outstanding common stock from 283,110 to 339,732 shares. Incidentally, at present prices every share purchased at $80 shows a profit of over...
...Union soft-coal operators should repudiate their agreement, there would be a strike. If this came in combination with a strike in the anthracite regions, there would be a coal scarcity, prices would soar and, for a time, all mines could open up and sell at a profit...
...Company served 48,717,747 meals, from which a net income (after taxes and depreciation) of $1,808,968 was realized, or $0.037 per meal. Last year, too, was a good rather than a record year, for, in 1923, the Company served 49,549,363 meals; in 1920 its profit per meal was $0.042, and in the same year...
...afford to abate one quarter of the principal if instead Italy would or could pay at once three quarters of the principal of her debt of more than $2,000,000,000. And by accepting three quarters of the debt at once, the U. S. would show a handsome profit, for the interest that the U. S. would pay during the moratorium would amount to more than $800,000,000 (not compounded) and the loss by accepting a present payment of 75c on the dollar would be only a little more than $500,000,000. Similarly if Italy pays...
...hull. Weather permitting, they planned to hoist out the 30 tons of treasure in great wicker baskets lifting a ton at a time. Two weeks they estimated the job would take them, before they sailed back to New York to enrich their backers with a 10,000% profit...