Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...
...like a chip on a glassy lake, it could drift for millions of years before it approached the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 25 trillion miles away from the sun. Man's spaceships can probably reach interstellar escape velocity in a generation, but there will be little profit in interstellar voyages. They will take too long. The barrier that protects the stars and their planetary systems from human invasion is not space but time, and the shortness of man's life...
...stockholders wanted to sell. The market rose to $11.90. At week's end Reynolds held directly nearly one-half of all shares outstanding, had even picked up 260,000 shares that the Church of England's Commissioners, who handle the church's investments, unloaded at a profit of about $1,000,000. Reynolds' investment: around $40 million. In addition. Tube and Reynolds upped their stock-swap offer to $12.32, got enough additional stock to raise their total holdings...
...went to work at Heinz in 1927 as a visitors' guide, held 57 varieties of jobs within the company. He worked in sales and advertising, became general manager of manufacturing in 1946, a vice president in 1949, executive vice president in 1957. Armour will be trying to widen profit margins; while fiscal 1958 sales climbed to $293,800,000 from $278,900,000, and Varieties increased to 675, net dropped from...
Their objection was based on the fact that MEBAC, a new non-profit organization, has selected the Cambridge Drama Festival as the only summer theatre group to use the "ideal site," which will open July...