Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Refusing his half of the $25,000 offered by Count Marc de Tristan for the return of his three-year-old son, broad-shouldered Cecil Wetzel (who has three children) did a turn at a Los Angeles theatre instead, giving an account of the rescue (TIME, Sept. 30). He remarked: "I've got kids of my own." He netted $2,000. Winding up in San Diego (with business terrible): "I'll never go on the stage again...
...resign, for the Mayor had persuaded 48-year-old Willard Cole Rappleye, dean of Columbia's medical and dental schools, to fill in for the 15 months of the Mayor's unexpired term. Gentle, white-haired Dr. Rappleye, an old friend of Dr. Goldwater, plans to return to Columbia next year...
...contrasting cases of U. S. Steel, a leading defense beneficiary, and Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., cigaretmakers, who are likely to get little benefit from a defense boom. Having had three very poor years in 1936, 1938 and 1939, Big Steel will undoubtedly figure its excess profits by return on its capital. By this method, it can earn up to some $112,000,000 over and above its normal tax before paying on any excess at all (Big Steel's 1939 net income before taxes: $54,095,000). Philip Morris, on the other hand, earns far more than...
...increase in dividend was voted at a recent meting of the stockholders, in accordance with which members who paid cash on purchases last year will receive a 12% return instead of the usual 10% while those who had checking accounts will get 10% instead of 8%. The largest 100 dividends will be mailed...
Logan Bullitt, a member of Dunster House last year, returned to Cambridge Saturday in uniform to spend a weekend. Bullitt, who joined the National Guard last winter, is spending this year as a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery, defending Portland, Me. from invasion. He intends to return to school next fall...