Business & Finance: Circus Trust

With the circus as a business enterprise, with circuses as corporations, the average person is no more concerned than he is concerned with the old swimming pool as a source of waterpower.

Last week, however, came a reminder of the fact that the circus business is an industry, subject to profits and losses, to fat seasons and lean, and subject also to mergers, combinations, monopolization. It was the monopolistic aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large,...

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