America 1919

People outside were concerned about the list of the top eight contestants from the Miss America Atlantic City pageant; they discussed which beauty contestant didn't live up to her name, which one was ranked too low, which was ranked too high.

After the celebration ended, Donnie cared about whether the influence of this event had spread out and exactly how much money he had made!

Unfortunately, he had to wait until the next day to get a rough idea of these matters!

When Donnie woke up, it was already morning, and lying beside him were the third and fourth place contestants of the Miss America Atlantic City pageant!

Without bothering with these two, Donnie got up and after having a bite of breakfast in the Ritz Hotel's restaurant, headed to the stronghold of Starry Entertainment.

All the financial reports on the betting values for Miss America were handled by Starry Entertainment.

The external betting was managed by Robert.

When Donnie strode into Starry Entertainment, the smile on everyone's face indicated the success of the previous night.

The accounting manager Terry Rollins handed over the financial report he had prepared as soon as Donnie sat in his office!

"Boss, according to the statistics from last night, a total of 32 tickets were sold at the preliminary competition, totaling 32,000 US dollars in cash, while 5,120 flowers were sold, with revenues of 102,400 US dollars, totaling 134,400 US dollars. After all costs, our profit is 107,520 US dollars, according to the share, we will give Mr.

Nucky 53,760 US dollars, and we will have the same amount of money."

This does not yet include the income from all the Block Taverns across Atlantic City!

Furthermore, profits from sales in the other ten cities have already been established via telephone contact; preliminary competitions in ten cities have provided us with a total of 161,280 US dollars. This sum is ours alone, Mr. Nucky's portion has been removed!

Therefore, after calculations, we pulled in a total of 215,040 US dollars from last night's Miss America preliminary competition!"

Upon hearing this figure, even Donnie could not remain unaffected. Originally, based on his calculations, even considering external earnings, he expected to gain an income of around 300,000 US dollars at most.

But the situation now was such that, without even adding the external income, his earnings had already surpassed 200,000 US dollars!

It could only be said that the influence of the top-ranking brother was indeed tremendous!

After learning of this data, Donnie did not leave the place. Instead, he asked Robinson, who was waiting at Starry Entertainment, to come to his office.

"Boss, sales data from this morning's newspapers have not come out yet, but I've already sent people to monitor every newsstand. According to the data reported by our people, at least two out of ten people in Atlantic City today, including tourists, will buy our newspaper."

And I believe that as the Atlantic City pageant's top eight speeches begin, the newspaper's sales will surge even higher!"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

As the permanent population of Atlantic City is around forty-five thousand, the tourist population can exceed ten times that number. Following Robinson's estimates, today's sales of the "Atlantic City Post" could surpass 90,000 copies, far exceeding the existing population of Atlantic City.

Moreover, this number would also set a record for newspaper sales in Atlantic City and possibly the entire state of New Jersey!

The "Atlantic City Post" is priced at 3 cents per copy, meaning if we are to sell 90,000 copies, that's an income of 2,700 US dollars, the sales for a single day. With a profit of 0.6 cents per copy, the "Atlantic City Post" would have a net income of 540 US dollars in one day.

The newspaper industry is such that if your sales volume is high, your advertising revenue naturally increases as well.

"Very good!" Donnie was pleased with the result.

"Every day, and I mean every day, you need to publish the previous day's voting ratio for the top eight contestants. Starry Entertainment will provide you with the exact data!"

In theory, such data should be easy to calculate, but in reality, it's not the case because Donnie intended to create a tense atmosphere.

The so-called tense atmosphere meant making the votes for these top eight contestants close to each other, continuously encouraging all voters to keep buying the "Atlantic City Post" and voting for their preferred beauty contestant.

In the end, even if a contestant was perceived by the audience to have the highest voting rate, the final decision still required votes from the judges at the scene.

As for the judges' final votes... Donnie could manipulate those as well.

In short, to put it simply, Donnie wanted to truly control the outcome, with the aim being to better circle in money!

Money from betting pools on the sidelines!

This required a massive amount of calculation, a workload beyond what the "Atlantic City Post" could achieve.

Robinson nodded, "Understood!"

Afterward, Robinson reported another matter to Donnie: "Boss, the other three newspapers contacted me again this morning. They've buckled and allowed us to invest."

Last night, Paul Silas and the others were reluctant to agree to discuss an investment with the "Atlantic City Post."

But this morning, even though the sales volume of each newspaper had not been released, they had staff monitoring the newsstands too. The dismal sales made them realize that the only way forward was to accept investment from the "Atlantic City Post," otherwise they would not survive.