Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bound to vary from that expected or desired by the candidate who comes from a country of different traditions and standards. Two years should be sufficient to determine the possible value of a third, and if during this time the student finds that he has reaped all possible profit, it is unfortunate that the force of regulation and opinion should require further attendance.. In the past, the few bold spirits who have summarily resigned before the expiration of the usual term, have done so with the disapprobation of the officials. Under the new system all taint of the social...
...United Press, widely ramified outside of the U. S., takes special pride, and much of its profit, in its South American service...
Babst. As everyone knows, American Sugar Refining Co. is among the most potent of U. S. sugar companies. Last year's profit from all sources (including income from the ¼-owned National Sugar Refining Co.) totaled $9,614,432, as against $6,618,740 in 1927. Its holdings are wide and diverse. Not only does it own sugar refining plants but also a cooperage company, a coal company, and 300,000 acres of Cuban sugar land, equipped with factories and a railroad. This property produces 12% of all the company's raw sugar requirements...
...three-quarter billion dollars in the market. The Federal Reserve Board had adjourned without speaking. The drop had been severe, but not quite so severe as the drop on December 6 and February 7. It would soon be time, the market said, for the shorts to take their profit, for bargain hunters to appear...
Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything, friends of Mr. Loft surrounded him and began to auction off the suit. When the price reached $100, George said "sold." Into a telephone booth he stepped, removed the suit, tossed it out to the purchaser, remained in seclusion until another suit was brought from his home...