Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined man, he efficiently attacked the county's "wasteful, sprawling monstrosity incapable of rendering efficient and economical service." He streamlined the 35 old departments down to 17, economized to give the county its first tax reduction, from 17 to 15.9 mills. His countywide auto-inspection system made little profit but cut off easy revenue of hamlets retailing inspection stickers without spending money to inspect anything...
...flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone stood by to slip a bouncy false bottom into the barrel when the marks began to win too much. The hanky-panks (honest games) also made a profit; the slum (prizes) are never worth the price of a turn...
...investor who holds 100 shares of a stock at a profit but does not want to take the profit for tax or other reasons sells 100 shares short. When he covers the short sale by delivering the stock in which he has a profit, he receives whatever the price was at the time of the short sale, no matter how low the price may meanwhile have dropped...
...more liabilities than assets. Informed that the shaky company has stopped building houses on the property, and the Teamsters are foreclosing their loan, John McClellan did rapid arithmetic, reckoned the welfare fund was out $700,000. Seemingly unconcerned, George Fitzgerald rosily predicted the land would make a handsome profit, despite the fact that the State Health Department refuses to approve its water facilities. The hearing over, he climbed from the witness chair to prepare for a return appearance this week in his old role as counsel. Fitzgerald's client of the week: Old Pal James Riddle Hoffa, who once...
Noon mainly means lunch, but the abstemious will profit by visiting any one of Harvard's mid-day standards...