Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meatlyke ("savory sausage rolls") can be sold at a penny each for a gross profit...
...weeks after he plumped for a 6% profits limit, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week handed U.S. speculators and investors a $50,600,000 profit within an hour-and was glad...
...Like all Government issues, the new bonds were offered at 100. But the issue's high yield and the shortage of other gilt-edged offerings pushed the bonds 3⅜ points higher within an hour after formal offering. Even when the free riders (persons buying only for quick profit) unloaded, the bonds held firm, dipped only 5/6 point...
...Government papers to ship anything abroad, so small orders are not worth the trouble. Furthermore, in Brazil you can make 10-12% on "an extremely safe mortgage." One businessman found his business was yielding him only 23%, so he quit, went into another that would yield him a "legitimate profit...
...first year, after paying the $60,500 rent, he got by with a $3,975 deficit. Last week he reported his earnings for the second year: a net profit (after rent...