Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alas! some people can never profit from the mistakes of others. For instance, Weeping Walter Blatt, who rushed to take over the empty place in the Troubadors, returned the next morn a sadder and a wiser...
...does not profit much to sing this tune...
...Braniff Airways broke into the clear, earned $28,000 profit. Last year earnings were a good...
Imperialism without a Sting. Braniff planned his first foreign venture with care. Too many U.S. businessmen, he thought, have gone into foreign companies, exploited them to the last penny of profit, and pulled out. His own plan: to organize a Mexican company, operated by Mexicans, and paying more than lip service to the Mexican economy. For himself he asked for a fair return on his investment, a traffic hookup between his two airlines. This brand of Yankee business easily won Mexican favor, plus route privileges to Tampico, Merida, Vera Cruz...
...still anxious to get back to its mechanical last, nevertheless unloaded the biggest controlling block of bank common stock ever to be offered publicly in a single transaction. It found eager buyers, since even at $42 National stock was a good deal. Nobody minded G.M.'s profit of over 100%. The emergency was over...