Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football games, Carroll also stole wallets, watches, jewelry. He took credit and identification cards, used them to forge checks. The summer months were tough going ("The slack season," says Carroll), but he found that in the ordinary academic year he could show quite a profit. He spent an average of $500 to $800 a week, still had enough money left over to buy a new Chrysler, and to move his wife and five children into a new $10,000 home (paid for in cash...
...Profit from Song. It does not happen any more now, because Mrs. Wagner organized an all-out effort by the Negro community to set up a 25-bed convalescent home where Anderson Hospital's Negro outpatients can stay at little or no cost. Last weekend a thousand rich Negro voices welled up in the Sam Houston Coliseum in the half-resigned, half-hopeful words of favorite spirituals and hymns. Children pantomimed angels and devils, flowers and animals, while a narrator boomed James Weldon Johnson's words in The Creation and Listen, Lord. With an audience...
What would it profit a man to have read the bestselling books...
...second point, the Law School Dean charged that lawyers should not merely provide legal service at a profit, but should also have an obligation to "see that the legitimate needs of the public for legal services are fairly...
...flocking to Manhattan. And it was also the kind of deal Hilton hates to pass up. Just three months ago. he sold Manhattan's 1,060-room Plaza Hotel for $15 million; the New Yorker more than makes up the loss in rooms and gives Hilton a tidy profit on the switch...