Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stocky man with a mustache and goatee, Smith has been a cab driver for the past five years, paying a daily fee of $16.50 to use a "rent-a-cab." From that investment he can expect $100 a week-in a good week-as personal profit. He is unmarried ("I'm all alone in this jungle," Smith told his lawyer, Oliver Lofton, a former aide to Under Secretary of State Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach). He rents a one-room apartment in Newark's "Ironbound" district (so named for its wrap-around railroad lines), has a collection of 25 "cool...
...everything from nags to numbers, pinochle to pinball machines.* Everybody wants a piece of the action, including the politicians. In 1964, New Hampshire became the first state in this century to legalize a lottery, followed this year by New York. But even the most unscrupulous bookies, whose average "vigorish" (profit margin) is 10%, would blush at New York's 70% lottery rake-off. The fact that state lottery tickets are sold in the marbled halls of New York financial institutions is too much for some people. Texas' Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee, sponsored a bill...
...printed language since the introduction of the quotation mark during the late 17th century. Some typographical experts have already hailed its unique ability to express the ambiguity, not to mention the schizophrenia, of modern life. The interabang, cracks Harvard University Press's monthly bulletin the Browser, "might with profit appear editorially at the end of all remarks from the political platform and the pulpit...
...compared with its May 8 record of $94.58; it is up 18% for the year so far. The more familiar Dow-Jones industrial average gained 13 points to 882.05, up only 12% for the year, leaving it far below its February 1966 peak. The Dow-Jones lag reflects the profit squeeze that has hit blue-chip manufacturing firms-a squeeze that only helped to stoke investors' interest in smaller, more volatile issues on the American Exchange...
...flick through books on such subjects as real estate management, production cost analysis and product marketing. Then they will visit major U.S. industrial firms, dropping in on General Mills or IBM or Mobil Oil to get a firsthand look at how their male counterparts in the U.S. turn a profit...