Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late husband's share in what she claims he and his partner had conceived as "a business of conducting rituals, ceremonials, lessons, instructions and the sale of books and periodicals . . ." They founded AMORC, she says, "as a device to disseminate information, lessons and instructions to others for a profit." The take, she contends, is good. According to Widow Kiimalehto, the AMORC membership is now around 2,-000,000 (which Rosicrucian officials claim is a gross exaggeration...
...ladies' lounge of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, 70 women started a ten-week lecture course in investment sponsored by New York University. All had signed up (at $35 each) to hear Finance Professor Guy Downs Plunkett lecture on such topics as "Can I Profit from the Financial Pages of the Newspapers?" The professor thought they could...
Furthermore, brokers' own commission rates, now the highest in history, might be an added drag on the market. In a dull market, profits of even a single point had been hard to make. When made, around a third of a point of the profit on a 100-share transaction in a cheap ($10) stock went for buying & selling commissions...
...Revival of Righteousness." Birddog lobbyists of the American Legion, controlled by World War I veterans who would profit soonest from the scheme, squatted watchfully in the galleries. Thus faced with going on the record, a group of frightened Congressmen did what John...
Watson said that no profit will be allowed from the Bendixes, which will be coin-operated. All revenue from the machines must go to the House Committee, rather than to a private company, and the committee must use all the money for expenses and maintenance. It will also have to pay the University for electricity and water...