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...United States to restrain the dangerous ambitions of nations which still have the taste of blood. The Hearsts and their kind who represent Great Britain as a centre of imperialistic intrigue and commercial plotting have no higher object than to make mischief between kindred peoples and financial profit out of a shameful traffic in racial and national prejudices and antipathies. They will reap at best a poor harvest if Canada, Great Britain and the other British nations never forget that he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. The Montreal Star
...money-making project. The profession therefore offers a wide field for men who are artists, practical planners, construction experts of different kinds, and for men of executive ability in directing construction or of good judgement in real estate and general financial affairs. An architect may study with profit everything from Greek temples to real estate promotion or modern plumbing. The monetary awards are usually not large, except for a few firms who do a great deal of large building work. On the other hand, the architect in ordinary practice may feel assured of a reasonable remuneration and very often...
...great milling trusts held and still hold the unorganized farmer in their hands. He cannot set the price for his article when he lives alone and is unorganized. Our industrial program includes a state mill and a state bank, both of which have proved very successful. By eliminating the profit of the middleman and the miller we have been able to sell wheat cheaper and pay more for it, and we've broken up the power of the banking and milling interests in North Dakota...
...gross profit on sales, taking all departments of business together, was 23.4 percent of the volume of business. The ration of expenses to sales was 12.28 percent. In other words, it cost the Cooperative Society about twelve and a quarter cents, on the average, to sell each dollar's worth of goods. Compared with retail stores in the million dollars year class, this expense ratio is believed to be very favorable. It is the aim of the Cooperative Society to sell goods at the market price the same as other stores, no more and no less. The main difference...
Although the situation is extremely unfortunate, the farmers will have to face it and plan their production so that they can make a profit next year...