Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blood. If anybody can squeeze a respectable profit out of Italian Swiss Colony, Louis Petri should be the man to do it. Behind him is a family tradition of winemaking started by his grandfather Raffaello, who began a small winery in the San Joaquin Valley in 1886, built it into one of the best-known vintners in Cali fornia. During prohibition, the Petris got out of the business, and made Italian-style stogies in Tennessee, got back in again after repeal by buying three California wineries...
...help restore a greater element of peace and quiet to the Harvard community and would stop the dangerous precedent set in last term's blood drive, with its sound truck solicitations. Must Winthrop House continue to exploit its unfortunate captive audience, unobtrusively studying in their rooms? What shall it profit Winthrop House if it break even and surrender to modern American advertising technique? Ecrasez-Pinfame!David A. Halperin...
Last week the Vatican, after making a long study of the Knights and their modern works, decided that their resiliency and their good name would profit if some of the old privileges were taken away. More than a year after its first meeting (TIME. Jan. 28, 1952), a tribunal headed by Nicola Cardinal Canali. himself a Knight, quietly told the order to revise its constitution. The changes ordered: 1) some 20 "Professed" Knights, bound by religious vows, must start living something like the communal life of a religious order, 2) the higher degrees of Knights need no longer...
...Twin City Rapid Transit Co. with the help of such people as Nightclub Proprietor Isadore Blumenfeld (alias Kid Cann), a wealthy Minneapolis hoodlum with a record of 30 arrests. Later, Green squabbled with his associates and sold out his stock in Minneapolis Transit at an estimated $100,000 profit. In 1951 Green went after the management of United Cigar-Whelan Stores because they had not been paying dividends, succeeded in taking over the company (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951). But the profit & loss sheets since then have shown no startling improvement...
...girls would profit much more from other activities. Wrestling, for instance. To the emancipated female of this modern age, an acquaintance with the finer points of wrestling is much more valuable than a knowledge of stair climbing. This is obvious and needs no further explanation...