Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother John, now reinstated, with much swagger. Their operations in the pit caused much lifting of eyebrows among veteran traders. Their efforts to bull wheat to the peg price of $1.18 failed. When the price rose on dry weather reports, the Kelloggs sold Government wheat heavily, took a profit, helped to produce the next slump, arouse the ire of growers. This month Stabilization Corp. held its first annual meeting, reduced Mr. Kellogg to a vice president. Selected for president after a vain search among big grain men for a No. 1 executive was one George Sparks Milnor, an able, honest...
Along with its small profit, however, the Trust got a 20-year concession to do match business in France under the monopoly law excluding other foreign matchmakers. This profit will be tremendous...
Last week the new and dynamic Prime Minister of France, M. André ("L'Americain") Tardieu completed arrangements to buy back the French I. O. U.'s from the Swedes for $103 1/2-a profit to the Match Trust of only ten points, only...
With great tears rolling down his stupid face he explained that, placed in charge of a Soviet collective farm in the region of Dalmatov, he had racked his brains to find some way of turning what looked like an unavoidable deficit into a profit. "I wanted to make a g-g-good showing for the glory of the p-p-proletariat!" sobbed Nikolai...
...with terror the culprit wailed: "I acted in good faith! I ordered all the women in my cooperative to cut off their hair and I sold it at a good price and I turned over every kopeck to the Government. That was the only way I could show a profit! Could I help it if the women were angry...