Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union Minière that the nationalization was the legitimate action of an independent nation, and by the Congo that compensation is a part of any legitimate nationalization. If that should happen, Union Minière could probably be recruited to continue marketing Congolese copper at a healthy profit to itself. If an agreement cannot be reached, the Congo is in for some hard times...
...would-be killers were still at large, but a Viet Cong who had confessed taking part in Van's murder was in jail. There was much gossip in Saigon about other suspects. But in each case, the most likely remained the Viet Cong, who not only stand to profit from any animosity between assembly and government, but have been on record since before the assembly was elected as determined to kill its Deputies...
...ranch. Recently, however, despite frequent refinements and the introduction of the station wagon and light-truck Jeeps, Kaiser's grip on the domestic market has been weakened by a couple of upstart Jeep-style sports models: International Harvester's Scout and Ford's Bronco. Moreover, the profit margin on sales to the military, still a large chunk of the company's U.S. business, has felt a pinch. As a result, Kaiser Jeep owes its 1965 operating profits of $4.9 million (on sales of $311 million) mostly to its overseas sales...
Actually, Rothschild Frères was moved more by pique than profit. It seems that some Paris stores have lately been nervy enough to question big checks drawn on Rothschild accounts. The bank hopes that the cards will end what one irritated Rothschild officer described as those nasty incidents that "occur from time to time, when a merchant insists on calling us before he accepts payment by check. It has proved embarrassing for us and for our clients...
Friends at settlement houses directed them to a non-profit organization which had been recently formed in Cambridge and which was urging a re-study of the whole idea of the Inner Belt...