Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported to plan nothing less than the sale of both Wagons-Lits and "Cooks' " to U. S. investors. Their own holdings were acquired at a price far below the present high value of the shares. Thus, if the U. S. market proves receptive, they can sell at a profit not huge but fabulous...
...knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...
...considering his own full-blooded pique at being peremptorily summoned from business-mixed-with-pleasure in Havana. But patience turned to indignation, blandness boiled into wrath, when Senator Walsh wondered what such an accommodating purchaser might have known or felt or perhaps shared privately from the cunning middleman's profit...
...Zeiss firm of Jena will sell these instruments only to cities, universities, museums, after guarantee that they will not be used for profit. Each a universe and a lecture room combined, these hun dred-foot domes reproduce the movements of all heavenly bodies, but are. available for ordinary class purposes when not wanted for astronomical demonstration...
...Union, the seat of the Democratic National Convention (at Houston). Bunker's Monthly, however, is no passing boom sheet, no harp twanging the glories of yesteryear. It is substantial in size, pleasing in appearance, broad in editorial content. New Yorkers and Californians can read it with profit...