Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sold his Manhattan co-op apartment (which had cost him $100,000 in 1963, and on which he had spent $66,860 in improvements) for $312,500. Profit...
...been given to her nine years earlier by Nixon's wealthy friend Elmer Bobst, then the chairman of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company.) Tricia lent her father $20,000 for purchase of the Florida property, and Nixon promised to repay her that amount plus 40% of whatever profits he might make. On Dec. 28, 1972, Nixon sold the property for $150,000, making a profit of almost 300% on his investment. Tricia received $65,000 as her share, and paid capital gains taxes of $11,617. The White House statement was aimed at refuting published reports that Tricia...
Highballing down a turnpike in his own $30,000 rig, the open countryside flashing by, the air conditioning and stereo on, old buddies to meet at the next truck stop, a good load in back and the promise of maybe $20,000 in profit at the end of the year-a man could do worse. But times now are anything but flush, and the truckers have suddenly turned into the angriest and most disruptive group of protesters in the nation...
...three months ago, diesel fuel averaged around 27? per gal. Now it costs 45? to 51? and has gone as high as 80? at the pumps of at least one Ohio truck stop. Typically, a trucker grosses $300 hauling a load between Pittsburgh and Chicago and keeps $55 as profit. Rocketing fuel prices now slash that profit by $23. The truckers want the government to set a diesel-fuel ceiling of 35.9? per gal. Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar and the Cost of Living Council have agreed to look into charges of price gouging by truck stops. ? Fuel scarcity: When truckers...
...also said that the resistance groups and persons were not willing to return to normalcy in compliance with Papadopoulos's designs and were primarily interested in vote gathering. It "is only certain that the extreme left will profit from the situation," he said...