Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England Gas & Electric Assoc. in 1948, lost out by ½ of 1% of the votes in a bitter proxy fight. But he salvaged something from defeat; the company stock he had bought to further his fight had climbed in value and he sold out with a profit estimated at close...
Figures which were made public two weeks ago revealed that for the last school year the Dining Halls went into the red by $76,000. The year before, the had made a profit of approximatel $15,000. At that time University official said that they would not begin to consider a price increase unless the September and October totals showed a serious loss...
...claim more shrinkage than actually occurs. It is just as simple to rejuggle the books to bring purchase prices down with little risk of being caught. For with retail prices skyhigh, black marketeers can buy their beef above OPS ceilings, sell it at legal prices and still show a profit...
...tomatoes on a tray into the suite of Mrs. Tillie Lewis of Stockton, Calif. She was aghast at the bill ($1). "You tell Vincent Astor,"* said Mrs. Lewis as she signed the check, "that these tomatoes cost him no more than 5? apiece, that's 1,000% profit." Said the waiter: "I guess you know your tomatoes...
Among the graduate departments, the Law School fell $85,000 to a deficit of $31,000. The Medical School profit dropped $50,000 to a $42,000 total, but this surplus was achieved once again by the use of large amounts of money that may be employed anywhere in the sciences...