Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children, "but I never dreamed of this much success. I expected little freedom for jobs or work in America, but that is not the way it is. We have freedom to work hard and do well here. If I work one hour, I get one hour's profit from it. It's not that way in other countries...
...whether in the Bible or in fairy tales or in great works of fiction, money is held in contempt. The great callings are not trade or commerce but the state or the military or the church or scholarship. The great legendary virtues are not thrift-and its explosive extension, profit-but courage, kindness, faith...
...created a business boom, and not everyone is hurt by the price increases. Some farmers, for instance, have discovered that if they can hold part of then-produce off the market at harvest time, they will soon get higher returns. Merchants who can procure scarce products are making bigger profits than ever before. One Massachusetts merchant who owns several privateers reports that profits of 100 percent on sugar and 150 percent on linen and paper are "more than common." Jonas Philipps of Philadelphia says that European goods command a profit of 400 percent there...
Even those who profit from rising prices, however, soon see those profits disappear when they themselves must pay more for their goods. And creditors of all kinds, everyone from merchants to landholders with fixed rents, are finding to their sorrow that the bills due them are worth less than they had anticipated. So, on balance, most Americans are more hurt than helped by rising prices...
...they will be exchanged for American products, then forwarded to America. If the Americans run out of produce or cannot deliver on tune, the arms will be shipped on credit. If they do have valuable goods, Roderique Hortalez & Cie.-meaning Beaumarchais and two partners-stands to make a sizable profit. Either way, the Americans get the arms...