Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keppel, who lives in New York City, prepared at Groton. He was the first Red Book chairman to operate at a profit in a number of years. He was chairman of the Freshman Guide Committee which submitted a report to Dean Leighton last May criticizing various aspects of the first year...
...insiders spread the false rumor that Italy had quit the League of Nations. Shares zoomed wildly up. When the regular press association cables contradicted this false hope, shares slumped, the shoe-string speculators were sold out and the insiders picked up their 'shares again, having turned a quick profit. Later in the week the rumor mongers tried one along the line that Italy had accepted a League compromise. The short-sellers covered themselves comfortably as the market skidded down, were in a position to get back on the long side when the press associations brought the good news that...
...nationwide notoriety since he defended the assassins of Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye and Financier Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, July 10, 1933). As the merchant hesitated, the revolutionist argued slyly: "Consider the 100,000 yen you contribute to our cause as an investment. Sell shares short and take your profit in the slump that will follow our coup. There cannot fail to be a slump. We are going to assassinate the entire Cabinet, the leaders of all political parties, and nine great dignitaries including Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal...
Thus at a time when the wheat importing areas of the earth need more grain than they have bought in years, Canada alone can supply them. So for once it looked as if a governmental stabilization scheme might turn a profit instead of the usual loss. With its enormous reservoir of wheat accumulated in tireless attempts to support the Winnipeg market, the Canadian Grain Board can almost dictate its own prices...
...handbill intimates that life since Boylston Street has not been without profit. The plans for the coup have been made and the hour is near--3 o'clock sharp tomorrow afternoon on Boston Common. From the soapbox nearest Beacon and Charles Streets he will launch the final attack with the novel cry "Absolute New and Positive Evidence that Bacon wrote Shakspere...