Word: profited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still run by Robert Porterfield. Porterfield founded the group in 1932 with 21 down & out actors, $1 in cash and a policy of barter at the box office. The first season's receipts were 10% cash and 90% pigs, game and produce; it wound up with a profit of $4.30 and two barrels of jelly...
Sinking Prices. In the drop, some bears unquestionably made a quick neat profit-since the "short interest" was already at its peak (TIME, May 30). As the market opened this week, it dropped again. A test was at hand of the mystic level of 163.12, the low mark made in the 1946 crash, which all subsequent drops had failed to penetrate...
...face of this optimism, some Wall Streeters wondered if the market might not have oversold its pessimism. Investors had not paid much attention to record profits in the last two years, because a large percentage of the profit went for company expansion instead of dividends. Now, as expansion programs were completed, more & more companies were boosting their dividends. And rising dividends, as Barren's financial weekly pointed out, "are hardly the hallmark of a deep depression...
...airmail pay rates are fixed partly on the basis of compensation, partly according to the airlines' needs for a subsidy in order to make a reasonable profit. How much of a given rate is compensation and how much is subsidy is not announced by CAB, but the Hoover Commission has urged that such separation be made...
...Caribbean Cement Co. Ltd., with himself as chairman (Ed Stettinius joined in as a director). He got a 19-year monopoly on Jamaican cement, and a scale of guaranteed prices (30% below the delivered cost of British cement, but still enough to make a tidy $221,650 annual profit...