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...still be worth a good price?they could be built for about $4,000,000 in a British navy yard (they cost the U. S. about $6,000,000 each). To an American, they are worth far less. A Dutchman could operate them under Dutch laws at a fair profit on his investment of $4,000,000. An American under U. S. laws* and without a subsidy...
...cash payment to $1,500,000, proposed that the Government accept bonds at 4˝ for the balance. Their main object was to prevent sale to Captain Dollar and son. They pointed out that they had been running these boats without loss to the Government?in fact with an operating profit of about $2,000,000 during the year ending Feb. 28, 1925?and that the Government was therefore under no pressure to sell them. (A major reason for sale of Government ships is to es- cape operating loss.) But, they agreed, if the Government is determined to sell, it should...
...Dodges were, however, anxious to build a higher-class car, in opposition to Ford's continual and exclusive interest in the cheap vehicle. Finally, in 1914, they retired from the Ford Motor Co., later cashing in their investment at a colossal profit, and set up for them- selves as the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co. In the higher-price car field, they at once encountered keen competition. Yet their experience, engineering skill and ability in marketing their product soon led to a second success even surpassing their part in the first...
...astonishing rise in price of U. S. Cast Iron Pipe. At the time, talk of a corner by W. C. Durant abounded. Yet the annual 1924 report of the Company now shows that other than manipulative causes were responsible for the long advance of "Pipe Common." Net profit last year amounted to $6,587,188, compared with $4,062,699 in 1923, $1,583,058 in 1922 and only $629,429 in 1921. Net for 1924 amounted, after 7% preferred dividends, to $43.17 a share on the 120,000 shares of common stock against $21.92 in 1923. Last year...
...there are 107 such establishments; they serve 50,000,000 meals a year, yield an annual profit...