Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House. Schacht, the adroit, was acquitted at British insistence. He even turned his experiences to profit, sold more than 300,000 copies of his book, Settlement with Hitler, the biggest German bestseller since Mein Kampf...
...District Attorneys in Manhattan and Brooklyn tried to clean things up, and they couldn't do it. Why? Because business would not cooperate. Corruption can profit the businessman," Halley contended...
...gambling on wildcats is part of his business. Wildcatting has helped make Humble the No. 1 U.S. producer of crude oil, and more than doubled its output in a decade (from 49 million bbls. in 1940 to 103 million in 1950). It also helped Humble boost its net profit by 66% in 1951's first half, the latest report it has issued...
...Lawrence. The instructor knew that "Black Mamba" had been first written in another course and that it was influenced by Lawrence. At the time I had not read "Sun" for over a year, but its role in "Black Mamba" seemed negligible enough to permit publication in a non-profit college magazine. However, before the story was submitted for the December, "Advocate" I again completely rewrote it in an attempt to eliminate whatever Lawrence material I remembered. Obviously I was not successful...
Eventually the business grew to unnatural proportions, and late in the '30's the several schools grossed a combined profit of close to one quarter of a million dollars. Almost three-fourths of the College used the bureaus to some extent, and while the average expenditure of the student was small, some men spent over $300 a year...