Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arsenic and Old Lace. Frank Capra directs. Starring Gregory Peck, Peter Lorry and someone who looks like Boris Karloff. About a family of crazies--the aunts kill lonely old men for charity, the convict escapee nephew kills for profit, the son thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. And they all run around in a chaotic mess of slamming doors and confused criminality. Brattle Theatre...
...actions dolefully reminiscent of dumping milk and killing little pigs during the Depression, U.S. chicken farmers and cattle raisers last week threw down the first major challenge to the Administration's price freeze. Claiming that they cannot make a profit at present prices as long as the cost of freeze-exempt feed grains keeps rising, poultry farmers cut their losses by systematically gassing, drowning and suffocating a million baby chicks and selling their egg-laying hens. Other farmers sent pregnant sows to the slaughterhouse and dispatched old milk cows to hamburger heaven. These tactics raise a two-headed specter...
...operating big housing and apartment complexes as well as office buildings. It has building projects under way in 13 cities and in six Midwestern and Southern states. On at least one of these, the 124-unit Ivy Wood development in Columbus, Deffet will have to take a loss. Any profit from Ivy Wood, a federally subsidized, low-and moderate-income project, has long since been poured into legal fees and other costs of fighting a bruising four-year battle with residents of the adjacent white, middle-class village of Minerva Park...
...similar agreement may be in the works between Britain's International Computers Ltd. and Germany's AEG-Telefunken and Nixdorf Computer companies, all of which make computers that are incompatible with IBM's. ICL is the only European firm that is turning even a marginal profit on its computer operations-in no small mea sure because of some $80 million in government subsidies that it has received since its creation in 1968 by the merger of two smaller firms...
...best recreation in the world." It can also be a long-term investment. "I want to retire up here," says Larry Mattei, an oil engineer from Houma, La., who has bought a plot. "And if I don't keep it, I can always sell it, probably at a profit...