Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production, about 8,000 bu. of soybeans, aboard a truck bound for the Ralston Purina Co. plant in Bloomington, 20 miles to the south. Says he: "I've covered my expenses. Now I've only got 15,000 bu. of corn that hasn't been marketed?my profit...
...other hand, if the price rises to, say, $3 a bushel in six months' time, the farmer would not collect that extra 25?-a-bushel profit. But farmers are often willing to forgo the opportunity for additional profit in order to guarantee in advance what they consider to be a fair return...
...surf off the Florida coast. Rosenbloom was a man fiercely determined to have things his way: when he wanted to move to Los Angeles, he simply swapped his Baltimore Colt franchise with then Rams Owner Robert Irsay and also managed to make a tax-free $4.4 million profit on the deal. Going it alone was a quality Rosenbloom taught his son Steve, 35, and his second wife Georgia, 52, who was to become his widow, and therein...
These guys are not from the Mafia. In fact, they are blacks. The field has been left clear to them by the Gambino family, which controls hijacking in Brooklyn but prefers-at least for now -to concentrate on higher-profit Scotch or cameras or fur coats...
...anyone astute or lucky enough to have bought a typical 5,000-oz. contract for a twelve-month future delivery would have made a killing. For a $2,000 margin payment to his broker, the canny investor today would hold the rights to $127,500 worth of silver, a profit of some 6000% on his investment. What is more, people who hold commodities futures contracts for more than six months have their profits treated as capital gains, taxable at a maximum...