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Under the great leader's guidance, engineers invested more than $2,000,000 in coal mines of Kentucky and West Virginia. He led the way in the formation of a profit-sharing mail-order store for engineers...
...Treaty which, they insisted, was in itself a "serious menace to peace." "In fine," says paragraph No. 8 of the note, "it now rests with the German Government themselves to create conditions so that the evacuation can speedily be effected. It is they themselves who will profit by the readiness with which they give effect to the rectifications demanded, as well as the care with which they proceed strictly to conform their attitude to the terms of the Treaty...
...late, the market has been conducted by professional traders rather than by the public. Now the trader can, in the long run, profit only by accumulating shares cheaply and selling out to the public at higher prices; or by selling short at high levels and buying in cheaply later on, when the public is panic-stricken. Both tactics have been tried repeatedly in the past few months; but, although traders have piped, the public refuses to dance. In consequence, the repeated spurts and reactions of highly speculative issues on the Exchange during recent weeks have had, for the, most part...
They, the editors, seized upon this letter, discovered that the queenly fingers, adventuring in the orthography of a foreign tongue, had slipped once or twice in spelling. So, to drum up interest in the articles they were about to publish, to make a better profit from the poor Queen's efforts to earn a little money, they published her letter pointing out mistakes...
...railroad system whose market value is approximately $1,000,000,000 will have been acquired by two men with an initial cash outlay of only $2,000,000. The appreciation in the Van Sweringen stocks has not only done the rest, but also paid them $16,812,809 profit for their pains...