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...romantic staples such as Jeanne d'Arc, Peter the Great, Lincoln and a hundred others, including the hero herein discussed. The development of this mental negative into an actual picture on the screen clarifies modern preconceptions of the past. If the representation is authentic the picture returns permanent profit to the spectator...
...more and more apparent organizing of forces into two hostile armies, the need of some means of rapprochement has become clearly evident. Especially is it evident when at last the absolutely necessary combination of the two upon a single end has been recognized beyond a doubt. Although whether profit sharing will bring this to pass remains an open question, the promoting of research for the betterment of industrial relationships is valuable and estimable in the highest degree...
...miners, who of course must have been perched in Luxury's lap, wholesaler after wholesaler was pocketing his "bit" on the same ton of coal. In their "banner year", indeed, of 1920 each wholesaler who did not handle shipments himself and therefore was merely speculating made an average profit of 15 cents per ton--a return of about fifty-five per cent, on capital invested. If this profit had been confined to mining companies and wholesale handlers of coal alone, the price of coal would not have been so sinfully high. But when distribution has extended through a line...
...absorb half the circulation, so that even as a metropolitan paper it is twice the size of an American daily. Within this radius the papers are distributed by small cars and cyclists to thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...
...Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...