Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington are so labelled, but anyone who wants to get at the facts and read the two reports of the Congressional Investigating Committee and the War Department Commission's report and the records of the Stevens suit in the Court of Claims will find that Morgan had no profit, interest or commission whatever in the transaction after his loan had been paid...
...Uncovered $476,573,129 in income-tax deficiencies. Last year's haul: $39,000,000 -a profit to the Government of $30 for every dollar spent...
...sonatas. Each record was made with one part missing. For violinists he made a violinless quartet, for cello players a cello-less one. By playing one of these records, the lone amateur violinist or cellist could dub in his part as best he could, have the fun and profit of playing quartets with three top-notch virtuosos. If he made mistakes or got lost, all he had to do was stop the record. The idea caught on. Last year in the U. S. Gamut Recording Co. issued sololess accompaniments to Schumann's Träumerei and Massenet...
...Most spectacular performer and No. 3 in profits was Continental Illinois, headed by onetime FDIC Boss Walter Joseph Cummings. During the year in which Continental Illinois retired the last $25 million of $50 million of preferred stock held by RFC, the bank wound up with a net profit of $16,526,010, including $6,882,388 in profits on securities...
Today General Beaver's school has 27 buildings (he picked up the Hollywood hotel cheap in 1931), is reported to make $100,000 a year. Scorning tax exemption and offers of endowment gifts, General Beaver runs a strictly profit-making institution. His teachers spend their vacations recruiting pupils, get part of their pay in commissions. His pupils pay $1,044 a year, which includes eight uniforms, tuition, board and all expenses. They are required to furnish bedding, an indelible ink outfit (for marking clothes) and a Bible. The school fee includes spending money: $1 a week for cadets averaging...