Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the best cattle-buyer's eye in history. This is hotly disputed by admirers of Gustavus Franklin Swift, who is also prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would have hurt livestock...
...year (except for the preprimary and postgraduate years), Calvert provides a teaching manual, textbooks, tests, charts, maps, scrapbook, pads, pencils, ruler and other materials. For an additional $16 the pupil may send work in for criticism by regular Calvert teachers. The school gives certificates, neither seeks nor earns profit from its absentee students...
...Sinco's latest fast financial footwork as a slick scheme to get a big raise in salary, while avoiding the enormous top-bracket taxes. By the stock deal he can increase his long-term capital gains, which are taxable at only 25%. Right off, he will net a profit of more than $30,000 in dividends (at the present rate), above the 3% interest he will pay the corporation on the unbought amount...
...Sinco, if the price of Sinclair stock should fall drastically. (Two years ago it sold for $5.) But with Sinclair Corp. booming, there seemed little chance of that. At week's end Sinclair stock was up to $13.75. Thus, in three days Harry Sinclair had made a paper profit of $75,000-taxable up to only 25% if held for six months...
...table before me in. ... 5) The heavens declare the glory of God: and. ... 6) Consider the lilies of the field. ... 7) Suffer the little children. ... 8) Blessed are the pure in heart: for. ... 9) Ask, and it shall. . . . 10) Every tree which bringeth not. . . . 11 ) For what shall it profit a man, if. . . . 12) When thou doest alms, let not thy left. ... 13) Let your light so shine before men, that. ... 14) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where. . . . 15) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three...