Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Theda Skocpol, a graduate student in Sociology, and Wesley E. Profit '69, a tutor in Afro-American Studies, also committed their departments to the sick-ward...
Panel discussion tonight on Political Hirings and Firings at Harvard with Sam Bowles, Howard Zinn, Wes Profit, Theda Skocpol and Sandy Davis. Geological Lecture Hall...
...colossus. Having watched the price of A. & P. stock drop from 30 to 16⅞ over the past two years, Bluhdorn might be counting on the company's highly touted WEO (Where Economy Originates) discounting campaign to turn earnings around, after which he could sell off at a profit. Trouble is, while WHO has boosted A. & P.'s sales, it has so far savaged A. & P. earnings. The company lost more than $50 million in the first three quarters of fiscal '72 (compared with a $16 million profit in the equivalent period of '71) and skipped...
During 1972, at least four individuals and three families in the U.S. are known to have made on paper not just millions but tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in stock profits. Alas for the dreams of the average investor, all were rich to begin with, and their formula for multiplying wealth is, to say the least, difficult to follow. It consists of owning, and sitting on, a large block of stock in a major company that the investor or his family founded, and managing that company to eye-popping sales and profit growth. A rundown on the known...
...value of his holdings zoomed no less than $260 million, to a total of $581 million. President Hewlett, 59, did even better; his H-P stock rose $271 million, to $604 million. Packard, a highly able administrator, and Hewlett, a shirt-sleeved engineer, managed the company to a 61% profit gain in the last fiscal year; successful introduction of two advanced pocket calculators accounted for much of the increase...