Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miller Can Profit from a Monetary...
Meanwhile, some feed-lot operators have discovered that they can turn a helpful profit from a product that is literally under their noses. Among other feed-lot operators, Ohio Feed Lot Inc. of South Charleston, Ohio, has been selling 50-lb. sacks of fertilizer made from "purified animal byproduct"-a euphemism for manure. At about $2 per sack, says O.F.L. President John Sawyer, selling the manure is "sometimes more profitable than selling beef...
...combination. Last week, after the dispute had finally faded, the Internal Revenue Service suddenly revived it.The IRS had paved the way for the merger in the first place by ruling that the insurance company's owners did not have to pay capital gains tax on any profit they made by exchanging their Hartford stock for ITT shares. Now the agency has reversed itself and ruled that taxes are due on the exchange after...
...Triple Crown winner, is already in the black. And since the film will open almost simultaneously in 370 theaters round the country, Yablans can say that even if the film itself flops, "by the time the word gets out, we will have played to so many" that a good profit is secure...
...scheming aide-de-camp. Lamaar convinces Governor Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) to make Bart the sheriff of the peaceful Western town of Rock Ridge. Lamaar figures that the spectre of a black sheriff will drive the citizens away, enabling him to buy their land and sell it at a huge profit to the railroad...