Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the country. The others were straight from bank and government records: that Rojas and his friends, with only a hint of collateral, used influence to obtain $4,286,170 in loans; that the Rojas family land company, starting with nothing but paper capital, pulled off a $148,000 profit within five months-and never paid a penny in taxes...
...most important jobs of the Dean of Freshmen is to "help students who are not mature enough yet to help themselves," according to Von Stade. "We have found over the years that if we can stop students from cutting classes early in their careers, they will profit more from their studies...
...army officer, plays Richard Smithies. He does this very well by now, but the characterization is becoming tiresome. As for the other performers, except for Elizabeth Fox, who is just about nasty enough as a snobbish young wife, the kindest thing which can be said is that they would profit from further experience. But so should everybody...
...fellaheen digging by hand, and dredged the canal to the old maximum depth of 35 feet. The workmen, pilots and supervisory staff are paid from booming revenues. Younis says the authority took in about $110 million last year, and paid $15 million into Nasser's treasury as profit. His hastily recruited 220 pilots, replacing those who walked off in a body one day, include six Americans, 21 West Germans, 40 from Communist countries, and 100 Egyptians. They have worked well. By way of improvement, Younis hopes to install radar, walkie-talkies for pilots, and eventually closed-circuit...
Ready to Wait. For Indiana's enterprisers, who are bidding for a choice zone around the capital city of Riyadh, Tariki hiked his opening demand to a 60-40 profit split, also "integrated1' right up to the gas pump. Indiana's President John Eldred Swearingen publicly rejected these terms last week, but was obviously ready to bargain further. Foreign oilmen pointed out that Tariki's deal with the Japanese promised at best small profit in limited markets, and only after years of waiting; Western companies alone, with their tanker fleets, refining facilities and extensive marketing systems...