Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After trade, this Administration believes the most desirable source of dollar income is private investment . . . Loans have to be repaid, both principal and interest, whether or not the investment earns a profit. Not so with private investment. For the private investor to withdraw a dividend, he must first earn it. And investments are like trade in that there is no limit to their expansion...
...cover the losses, investigators found, Cage bought up small industrial plants and pumped their profits into ICT, listed questionable assets, at least once reported a loss on a business deal as a profit. Board members finally grew restless with Cage's free-wheeling management, fired him last February...
Even Dulles might profit by reading Worthy's dispatches, for he has always treated the Red Chinese regime as more immoral than the Russian. The concept of degrees of immorality must indeed appeal to Dulles, for it now allows him to take up the position that the United States cannot permit its nationals to travel in an unrecognized country. He has, apparently, double-thought about the fact that American reporters were allowed to travel in presumably less immoral, though equally unrecognized, Soviet Russia from...
...foreign policy was like the house policy of the gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...
...Some profit pictures were much brighter. Oil-industry earnings were pushed up by heavy demand arising from the Suez crisis. Sinclair's net shot up 13% to a record $91 million in 1956. Socony Mobil estimated earnings at $250 million, up from $208 million in 1955. Shell Oil hit $135.8 million, for an advance of $10.3 million...