Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard funeral will correspond to the undertakers' Class 4-two priests, one cantor, two choirboys, no deacon or archdeacon, no draperies or crape, six candles on the altar and eight at the catafalque. The church fee will be a flat $15; undertakers will have to make what profit they can on extras outside the church-ornate coffins, luxurious hearses, etc. The dead whose families cannot afford to pay even for the simplified funeral will be buried at the expense of the local government, and with no fee for the church...
...member union from his late father, "Big Bill," as a sort of family property, to explain by next November why he refused to answer McClellan Committee questions. Under indictment in Indiana for conspiracy to bribe a state highway official, Hutcheson and other Carpenter officials turned a fast 200% profit by buying right-of-way land for $40,000, selling it to the state a few weeks later for $120,000. Also, in memory of his father, Hutcheson paid a hack writer $310,000 from union funds to write an official biography of Big Bill...
...possibly running to $10-$12 billion next year, it will still represent less than 3% of the gross national product, hardly a harbinger of runaway inflation. The bothersome rise in the wage-price spiral will be slowed by several deflationary factors: widespread overcapacity in basic industries, a squeeze on profit margins, no recurrence of a labor shortage as working-age population rises. What the bank expects is a relatively stable growth pattern over the next five years, with prices rising a modest 1% or 2% each year. Any further acceleration in prices could be crimped politically by Government controls...
...bonds would rise. Buyers poured into the Government bond markets and made a killing, as competition among bond buyers pushed prices of new issues far above par. For example, the 3½% bond that came out in February was bid up to 107.10, a price that gave speculators a profit of 250% on their actual cash investment...
...stores scattered where only one-third of the population lives. It invests only 2½% of product sales in advertising, well below many of its competitors. But last week greying, handsome President Justin Whitlock Dart, 51, announced that the firm's first-half sales were up 8%, net profit 26%. This year's volume should come close to $180 million and earnings should pass $5,000,000, the best in Rexall's 38-year history...