Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions inside and outside of Iran whom Mossadegh symbolized and spoke for, and whose fanatical state of mind he had helped to create. They would rather see their own nations fall apart than continue their present relations with the West. Communism encouraged this state of mind, and stood to profit hugely from it. But Communism did not create it. The split between the West and the non-Communist East was a peril all its own to world order, quite apart from Communism. Through 1951 the Communist threat to the world continued; but nothing new was added-and little subtracted...
...devaluation was one more indication that Communist Marshal Tito, while still revering Das Kapital as a Bible, is not using it as his only economics textbook. The Tito regime has recently loosened the government's rigid control over the Yugoslav economy, putting many state-run enterprises on a profit & loss basis...
...Boise, Idaho, Denver's Courthouse Square and sizable holdings in Manhattan. No deal is too big for Zeckendorf; it was he who assembled the land for the present site of the United Nations in Manhattan, and sold it to John D. Rockefeller Jr. at a $2,000,000 profit (TIME...
...Columbia in 1948, he said: "All our cherished rights-the right of free speech, free worship, ownership of property, equality before the law-all these are mutually dependent for their existence. Thus, when shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and that, without it, all rights would soon disappear...
...Baker thought he could afford to take over Colonial-troubles and all-to get its air routes. After a six months' strike of his pilots almost forced National out of business in 1948, Baker pulled the line out. Last year, National turned in a profit of $548,000. In the year ending June 1951, Baker boosted the profit to a record $2.6 million...