Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecution estimated that the city's oil-burner contractors were bled of $500,000 a year. And when Moran learned that the new Impellitteri administration had barred him from further profit, he took it in a businesslike way. "Well," former Fire Captain James Keohane recalled his saying, "we had a good run of it and it's the fortunes...
...jumped from $235,000 to more than $1,500,000. The thing about the company that bothered the jury was that one school board member, Roy J. Becker, and the husband of another board member, Mrs. Gertrude Rounsavelle, had been handling its insurance and had made themselves a tidy profit of about $8,000. Strictly speaking, their transactions were legal, but the grand jury accused Becker of misconduct and a superior court found him guilty. Becker was dismissed from office; Mrs. Rounsavelle was defeated for reelection. Heads Nos. 1 & 2 had rolled...
...charge of installation of the washing machines is footed by Maytag, but the House committee must pay the continuing expenses of water and electricity out of its 20 percent cut of the profits. The Kirkland House Committee can't say yet whether the plan will net them any profit, since the bills have not yet come...
...organizational odd jobs for numerous Communist and Communist-front groups, became known as a handy and trustworthy man with a mimeograph, and wound up in "Pro-4," as select and apparently as important a lot of plotters as over thumbed a copy of "Value, Price, and Profit...
...over Capital when it was losing more than $2,000,000 a year, cut costs by slashing his staff to the bone and boosted business by starting cut-rate coach service. In 4½-years, he pulled Capital out of its nose dive, climbed to a $1,756,490 profit in 1951, and cut the line's debt from...