Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from a debate trip to Florida in March and entry in the National Invitational Tournament at West Point two weeks ago, the Council this year sponsored three spring vacation tours. For the first time, the tours produced a profit for the Council treasury, as opponents paid $20 each to debate Harvard on "any topic and any side" they chose. One trip went to Houston, Tex., a second to the plain states, and a third to Minnesota...
...profit organization, the Center pays the salaries of its staff from tuition and individual contributions. Fairs are also used to balance the budget, such as the Bamboo Bizarre on May 25 which will feature saki and attempt to sell objects of art made by members...
...period a year ago, while domestic producers crushed the beans at a record rate for oils and livestock meal. A trader who put up $180 at Christmas (at an 18? per bushel margin) to buy a futures contract to deliver 1,000 bushels four months later, pocketed a $997.50 profit at the beginning...
Finally, the Committee will request that the annual Dining Hall profit, which last year amounted to about $10,000, be ploughed back into purchasing better cuts of meat. "There is no doubt," Moskowitz asserted, "that the best cuts of meat are not now purchased...
...process of breeding and feeding beef for profit has bred a lot of romance out of the cattle business. The closer the industry gets to its golden calf, the further it gets from its rootin', tootin' golden past. The cattleman has become a statistician, geneticist, chemist, endoctrinologist, pharmacologist, and market specialist...