Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered to do so, the offer would have been summarily rejected. For the States under the Ewing management could never have brought itself to profit from circulation gained by that type of political coercion. The States never sought forced circulation. It wanted no circulation that could be construed as involving a sacrifice of its principles and political independence...
Ronald Finney went to Topeka to give himself up. His father went with him, refusing to believe that he was guilty. Said the elder Finney: "His transactions from the first of the year showed a profit in excess of $200,000, according to information given me by his auditors. His losses on the wheat market last month were not in excess of $65,000. "We have purchased 30,000 head of cattle in Texas together. Delivery is to begin next week and Ronald is to be at the loading points to check in the cattle. We have a profit...
...unmasked bandits entered Booneville's Citizens Bank one evening at 6:30 and made their exit with $2,000 in cash. In firing Cashier Williams, Bank Commissioner Wasson explained: "Bank robberies in Arkansas are going to stop. . . . We are determined that the profit shall be taken out of robbing banks...
...young men and took a 60% interest in McClintic-Marshall Construction Co. Meantime U. S. Steel had been formed. When Union Steel announced plans for building a rail mill and a new railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going on, one morning in 1901 a Jugoslav mining engineer punched a hole in a salt dome on the Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop...
...Sloan rub his hands over these figures*#151;and very opportune were they, for General Motors still has $13,000,000 tied up in closed banks, much of which may prove a loss. Chrysler Corp. topped a first-quarter loss of $3,038,000 by a second-quarter profit of $7,785,000 -bigger than any quarter's profit since 1929. Chrysler sales for the first half were 217,000 cars compared to 222,000 for the whole of 1932. Walter P. Chrysler did not rub his hands -he declared a 50? dividend to stockholders...