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Updated: June 14, 2025
The rapidity with which the undertaking was carried through and the profits which accrued from the investment were alike astonishing. The subscription books were opened at eleven o'clock one morning and by midnight 2226 shares had been subscribed, each purchaser paying down thirty dollars.
He kindly reminded me that he was a newspaper proprietor, and, as such, possessed of the means of inspiring confidence in persons with money to spare. They could afford, it seems, to give him three months in which to arrange for repayment. In that time, as he thought, the profits of the new journal might come pouring in. He knew best, of course.
Thy aims are low, thy profits high; Thy mind is only bent, Whatever live, whatever die, To scoop in cent per cent. Go back, go back, etc. To thee the greatest authors are Those who most greatly sell; But he whose soul is as a Star Why, he may go to H-ll! Go back, go back to wild New York, Go back across the sea; Go, corners make in beans and pork, No corners make in me.
The long upward trend of fundamental progress, however, gave rise to over-optimism as to profits, which translated itself into a wave of uncontrolled speculation in securities, resulting in the diversion of capital from business to the stock market and the inevitable crash.
Oh, papa, think what bliss! I'm to help Mara, work with Mara every day, and have a share in the profits." The captain's face grew sad and almost stern. Ella understood him instantly, and put her hand over his mouth as he was about to speak. "Now, papa, don't you perform the same little tragedy that I did. I know just how you feel and what you are going to say.
'Oh, let us leave it alone, she said with a little shrug. 'I knew you would give us all the work and refuse us all the profits. We are to starve for your workman, to give him our hearts and purses and everything we have, not that we may hoodwink him which might be worth doing but that he may rule us. It is too much! 'Very well, he said dryly, his color rising. 'Very well, let it be too much.
On the other hand, the amount of work that is put in to secure them is infinitely greater than happens in the case of the English midwife promoter; and if the enterprise is a failure, then the promoter goes without his profits.
A method suggested. Section 3. Would the principles of wage settlement worked out so far, produce a fair profits return? An open question. Section 4. The scope and form of any measure designed to assure the desired distributive outcome can be discerned. Section 5. The various steps in the formulation of such a measure reviewed. A measure tentatively suggested. Section 6.
It was indeed Chiquita herself, and with her, Agostino the ingenious rascal, whose laughable exploit with his scarecrow brigands has been already recorded who, tired of following a profession that yielded no profits, had set out on foot for Paris where all men of talent could find employment they said marching by night, and lying hidden by day, like all other beasts of prey.
Probably, if he be a cautious man of average ability, he will combine both evils; he will not lend so much money as he is asked for, and so will offend his own supporters; but will lend some which will be lost, and so the profits of the Bank will be reduced.
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