Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agriculture Department investigator, Fellrath had collected $100,000 from Fort Worth's Transit Grain Co. for blending about a million bushels of cheap Canadian wheat, officially graded as "unfit for human consumption," with high-grade U.S. wheat. Transit Grain exported its low-grade wheat at an estimated profit of some $500,000; the U.S. paid part of the bill by making up the difference between the domestic wheat price and that called for under the International Wheat Agreement. In addition, said the Agriculture investigator, Transit Grain paid about $15,000 to two of Fell-rath's assistants...
...same way as the British banks. But in this the Reds will probably fail, since the dollar deposits are in America and the U.S. Treasury refuses to permit delivery of the funds to Chinese mainland branches. The only Western firm in Shanghai that is still making a profit is Britain's China Engineers, which is busily importing textile machinery from Britain, and talking about how easy it is to do business with the Communists. Said one British businessman in Hong Kong: "They're plumb crazy. That kind of talk is hurting the rest...
...triple crown: the U.S. and British Opens and the P.G.A. Sitting down with a batch of Ike-in-action photographs for This Week Magazine, Armour tells the President what is right-and wrong-with his game. The rest of the U.S.'s 3,265,000 golfers could profit by Armour's tips...
...Penn's greatest football and basketball players, the belligerent "Old Quaker" (1937) had tried to achieve permanent national sports prominence for his alma mater and local profit...
Studebaker was not so fortunate. Harassed by tooling troubles in the production of its sporty new model, the corporation reported a net loss of $984,489 v. $4,862,149 profit last year. But with production up to 92% of capacity, President Harold S. Vance said that the company should be well in the black in the current quarter...