Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outrageous price of two and a half or three dollars a quart, when the price of straight whiskey delivered to the retailer exclusive of taxes can be as low as one dollar and twenty cents a gallon. Obviously, there is something wrong somewhere, and somebody is making an enormous profit. Figures published yesterday by the Federal government would seem to show that it is the retailer, although God known the diatiller is cutting down his profits to only about four or five hundred per cent. There is some excuse for these extraordinary prices in the case of whiskey where...
...promptly began a lively campaign to clean up the municipal government. When he sold the Times to political adversaries he got $25,000. He and his wife bought a car, drove to Springfield, Ill., bought two more papers which Publisher Stern sold four years later for a fat profit. In 1919 he took over the Camden, N. J. Evening Courier, and, later, the Camden Morning Post. He spent $500,000, ousted U. S. Senator David Baird's machine, installed a City Commission, ran up the Courier's circulation from 9,000 to 80,000, won his campaign...
...Almost Reilly. . . . Not Kelly. More like Reilly." The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time William Wrenn finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and lost money. Madge Wrenn has bought before gossip sent the stock, up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk the tip started...
...whose name Betty Woods does not know. The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time Jerry Woods finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and made money. Betty Woods has bought before gossip sent the stock up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk the tip started, increased her winnings by selling short as the stock goes down. Similar in treatment, both stories start with hero and heroine dressing for dinner, continue at a dinner party, contain more conversation than description. "Almost Reilly" is laid...
...They sold the idea to Philadelphia Socialites Nicholas and Townsend Ludington who backed them in Ludington Lines between New York, Philadelphia and Washington. Placed in charge of publicity was Amelia Earhart. Pinching pennies as no airline had ever dreamed of doing, Vidal & Collins astounded the industry by showing a profit without a mail subsidy. All went well until last year when they rowed with the Ludingtons, who bought them out. The line was absorbed by a competitor. Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam opened a new line in New England (TIME, Aug. 21). Gene Vidal met Elliott Roosevelt...