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...announced figures on Canal traffic for the fiscal year recently closed, he found that the rate of travel is now double that of a year ago, and tolls for the next year, at the present rate, will exceed $24,000,000, of which about $18,000,000 is profit above over-head expense...
...Chicago Opera Company's season just past gives interesting figures. The box office took in $984,207- $68,091 more than its receipts for the year before. The outlay was $1,335,925. Net loss, $351,718. In New York the Metropolitan Opera Company made a handsome profit...
...temporarily, fix wages, mine, transport and distribute coal. ¶The retail price of anthracite has practically doubled in ten years. ¶About 50 cents of the consumer's dollar goes to pay for coal at the mine, the remainder paying for transportation, distribution, retailers' and jobbers' profits. ¶Of this same dollar about eleven cents, altogether, goes as profit, divided between the producer, jobber, it' any, and retailer. ¶In times of shortage, however, jobbers often buy and sell the same coal several times so that a whole series of extra profits is pyramided...
...bonded indebtedness; it retired last February 100,000 shares of preferred stock at 125 by paying out $12,500,000; also, during 1922 the item of "goodwill" in its statement was reduced from $50,000,000 to $30,000,000 by the use of $20,000,000 from profit-and-loss surplus...
...putting up the money for such immense propaganda as the League of Nations' Non-Partisan Association is carrying on in our country?" and "What interest or interests are so anxious to have the United States join the League of Nations and would so profit thereby that they are financing such a campaign...