Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franc Question. Abbé Pierre bought the barrack buildings of an old prisoner-of-war camp on credit and set them up in vacant lots. Here he charged 15? for a night's lodging, took in 5,000 people a year and showed a profit. But more money was needed to build more houses, and when an ex-ragpicker suggested collecting junk and selling it, Abbé Pierre promptly organized such an efficient scavenger system that they soon needed a truck...
...Wafd Minister of Agriculture personally speculated in the cotton market and falsified crop reports to make a ?26,000 profit...
...saucerites had their arguments, too. Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced the highest sales (over $2 billion) and net profit ($134 million) in its history in 1953, reflected its confidence in the future by a surprise boost in its dividend for the first quarter from $1 to $2. After the announcement, the stock shot up 3^ points in a single day's trading. Other companies reporting record 1953 sales included National Biscuit Co., Union Pacific Railroad and St. Regis Paper. The Pennsylvania Railroad reported that its revenues were the second best in history...
...George V. But why shouldn't they put on some dog? They have a flair for it, and the Court of St. James's is no more authentic than this one . . . Trujillo's enemies say that he and members of his family have reaped great financial profit. Well, so did the Roosevelts...
...appointments reflected the eagerness of the Press and Corporation to follow such a policy. George Foot Moore, the famed Divinity School professor, and George Layman Kittredge, equally well known professor of English, were the two glants of the Syndics, and they made sure that there was no nonsense about profit before (publishing) pleasure. Upon one occasion, when a book had achieved almost miraculous success and was selling with the fervor of a Maxwell Bodneheim epic, Moore stomped into a Syndics' meeting a little late. Physically a tremendous man with a booming voice, he slammed the table with a fist...