Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noble of Mr. Philips to remind TIME Inc. that it "would be performing a real public service" if it "would refuse to stoop again to such profit-taking." He must have overlooked that very nifty bit of American Legion profit-taking achieved this year over a Presidential veto in Washington. For that superpatriotic boosting of the national debt, the Legion makes all of us, as taxpayers, even greater "suckers...
...Texas insurance superintendent to join him in court action to set it aside. Moreover, said the jealous Missourian, Mr. Milton had coerced the Texans into buying the two companies by threats that control would otherwise be sold to "undesirable" persons. Meantime, Mr. Milton, having made a clear $830,000 profit for his investment trust on the deal, departed on a Bermuda vacation...
...earnest Brooklyn physicians who invited him to tell them about vitamins last week, Johns Hopkins' Nutritionist Elmer Verner McCollum was a demigod who enabled doctors and druggists to profit from the vitamin business. When he finished speaking they beamed less amiably at him. For Dr. McCollum debunked some of the claims made for some of the vitamins...
...Flintkote shares they will get in exchange to a banking group headed by Manhattan's Lehman Brothers, who will in turn offer the stock to the public. For the Royal Dutch interest the Lehman group will pay about $15,000,000, thereby providing Sir Henri with a profit of $6,000,000 on his U. S. building venture...
...modern and highly unmaritime industry. Newport industries, like its only big competitor, Hercules Powder Co., sells products distilled from the pitchy roots of Southern pines. Like Hercules, it has striven throughout Depression to diversify these products and find new uses for them. But while Hercules' $3,175,000 profit last year was derived from four other large manufacturing interests (explosives, nitrocellulose, chemical cotton, chemicals for the paper trade), Newport's came entirely from naval stores and their byproducts...