Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each of which was good for a 10? or 15? discount on Swift meat products ranging from dog food to frankfurters. Grocers, tipped off by Swift's six-page advance ads in trade magazines, bustled to buy LIFE and Look. They figured that they could turn a Swift profit, since the coupons alone in each 15? Look and 20? LIFE were worth $1.45, plus a 24? redemption bonus for storekeepers, plus a chance at winning a prize in Swift's $26,600 sales contest. Armed with spare coupons, grocers could thus claim refunds on purchases made by customers...
Within Saudi Arabia princes built palaces for their private comfort, hotels and apartment houses for their private profit. Officials and palace hangers-on made fortunes in kickbacks and invested their profits in Egyptian or Lebanese real estate. When a Western diplomat tried to hint to Ibn Saud that his money was being stolen by corrupt officials, the Old Lion summoned his finance minister and demanded 1,000,000 riyals on the. spot. Soon sacks of coins were stacked around him. Triumphantly, the old king turned to the diplomat, declaring: "As King I must know that there is money available...
...each of their deaths, said the prosecutor, Adams stood to profit financially, though he had specifically said otherwise in requesting permission to cremate Mr. Hullett. Shortly before Mrs. Hullett's death, the Crown contended, Adams had banked a check she had made out to him for ?1,000 and asked to have it cleared in a hurry. Why had he done this? "We say," said the prosecution, "that it was because Dr. Adams knew quite well that Mrs. Hullett was going to die that weekend." Furthermore, the doctor had requested a post-mortem on his patient even before...
...same period, railroads were caught in the postwar squeeze between wages and prices, and pre-tax profits for Class I roads dropped 68% to $700 million. Since then, largely because of their race to modernize, the roads have stepped up earnings, last year wound up with a $1 billion profit. Says Southern Railway President Harry de Butts: "Fifteen years ago, when trucking grew up and undercut us, nothing was said. But now we are ready to fight back...
...Pauper Profit. In Detroit, arrested after he tried to mooch a nickel from a passerby, Panhandler Genter Adams turned over $166 in cash and a bankbook with a $5,728 balance to cops for safekeeping, chose a 90-day jail term instead of a $100 fine, explained: "I can't afford to take all that money out of the bank with the interest rates so high...