Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loans, Mr. Baird said bravely, were "private and personal investments entered into for profit because [they] carried for the lenders an option to purchase stock in the network. . . . The gains could have been substantial." Baird and Bilofsky were luckier than Groceryman Hartford, who lent Elliott $200,000, got back...
Last week in Montreal, Leonide Massine's new ballet company began a summer road tour that gave every evidence of becoming a moneymaker. The audience of 10,000 packed Molson Stadium - at a nice profit, too - and vigorously applauded Massine's Ballet Russe Highlights...
Under Federated's plan, 14 top executives would get options to buy 125,000 shares of Federated stock over a period of five years at approximately the market price. They would pay for it in installments spread over 15 years, thus profit on any rise in price during that time if they decided to sell...
...week, Pan Am canceled the deal. Reason: Pan Am's stock was up to 28, higher than even Pan Am's smart Juan Trippe had expected. Atlas will buy 100,000 shares at $16, under the escape clause of its Pan Am agreement, and thereby net a profit of $1,200,000. This is the price Pan Am pays for its lesson in bull markets. But Atlas loses its option-and a possible profit of $2,400,000. In the present market, Pan Am thought itself well out of the deal...
With these facts firmly in mind, the Mayor concluded: "The Government must pay either the entire difference [between costs and a reasonable retailers' profit] or else adjust the price...