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...Profit for Pinchot. As usual in the solution of such strikes, there is political byplay...
...those who run newspapers for profit, the moral was obvious. Speaking of its preparations for the Dempsey-Firpo fight on Sept. 14, the Tribune said...
...Company's huge gross earnings of $160,000,000 during the last year, they fell below the gross of $190,000,000 established the preceding year; profits also fell some $10,000,000 below those of last year. This decrease is mainly due to the reduction upon the profit obtained per car, which dropped from $90 a year ago to $43 this year. During the latest period, the concern produced 1,833,812 cars, trucks, tractors and Lincolns, compared with a total of 1,080,000 vehicles the preceding year...
...fight takes place at the Polo Grounds (New York National League baseball park), Manhattan, September 14. It will go 15 rounds to a decision. Tex Rickard is the promoter. Dempsey will enter $300,000 in his profit column when the fight is finished; Firpo will receive 12 1/2 % of the receipts with a guaranteed minimum of $100,000. The winner will hold the most valuable asset in professional sport ? the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Wrote Firpo in a New York newspaper : " I am not such a big fool that I do not have respect for the champion...
...difficult for any one to see that if the 180 sugar centrals in Cuba shall be allowed a private or sub-port . . . there can be no industry in Cuba except the American sugar industry." He proposes to tax the private roads to compensate for the additional profit made by sugar companies by having their own roads. Under these conditions the consolidated public roads could compete, improve their service, reduce freight rates perhaps...