Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This action came after Radcliffe officials discovered that the show was not a Harvard Dramatic Club production, as they had believed, to make money only for future shows and ultimately working toward funds for a University theatre. Use of Agassiz to make a personal profit is illegal and endangers the College's tax-free status...
...before had any worker been invited to the "House on the Hill." Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 46, great-grandson of Founder Friedrich Krupp, himself gave his workers the good news. Despite Allied restrictions, Krupp grossed $238 million last year (17.5% from exports), turned its first "satisfactory" postwar profit...
...week's meeting of Toronto's National Sales Executive Club. Rea's company, a 98.7% Canadian-owned firm, is one of Canada's fastest-growing oil and gas companies. Its 1954 report showed a $2,000,000 sales increase and a 20% rise in net profit over...
...company's annual report, issued last week, showed that in 1954 Creole, a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), earned $239 million-almost 24% net profit after taxes on its investment...
...stay on as publisher. He also said there would be no major staff changes and that the paper's present editors, executives and 1,200 employees will continue to run the daily. But Newhouse expects to pep up the stodgy Globe-Democrat. Although it has made a small profit year after year (estimated at $250,000 after taxes last year), it has been hamstrung by a tight budget...