Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward the imperialistic enslavement of all peoples, total war, and an apocalyptic holocaust and collapse . . . It is, in essence, the myth of the Frankenstein monster, the machine built to be man's slave, and which enslaved...
...sovereigns* just as good as those once coined by the Royal Mint. With five helpers, the pair had turned out the coins at a rate of 1,000 a day from gold exactly as pure as that used in the real thing. Each coin had netted them a tidy profit of some 1,750 lire ($2.80). How did they make their profit...
...came along he had the experience and the equipment to go after them. He landed $3,000,000 worth of contracts building PWA-financed irrigation canals in Nebraska, often got jobs by bidding for them at cost, figuring that prices would drop enough afterward for him to make a profit (they did). By 1938, he was big enough to handle more than $6,000,000 in contracts to help build Chicago's new subway. When World War II came, says Kiewit, "We really began to roll...
...every man can turn an $85,000 investment into a profit of $1,005,000 in two short years. Last week Robert Hirsch, a Bridgeport, Conn, insurance man, turned the trick with the help of some Fair Deal bumbling in Washington...
...Like giant Bethlehem (off 77% to $5.3 million), other steel companies showed the drastic effects of 28 strikebound days in the second quarter. National Steel's earnings were cut in half to $6.8 million; Sharon lost $430,280 v. a 1951 profit of $2.8 million; Follansbee's net dropped from...