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Word: profitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example and do the same." Agitators need not invent events to profit by them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Rolling & Controlling Events | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...price for promising Middle East oil concessions is rising so fast that the so-called fifty-fifty profit split is as dead as a dry well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: New Middle East Split | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...charter granted by the State of Massachusetts declares the HSA to be "a private non-profit corporation." There is a Board of Directors, consisting of five students, five businessmen, and five Faculty members, which has the final authority for all actions and policies of the corporation...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Harvard Student Agencies, Incorporated | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

Corporations continued to feel the bite of the recession in their first-quarter profits. U.S. Steel reported first-quarter earnings off 46% ($1.04 a share v. last year's $2.09), and Inland Steel was off 46% ($1.40 a share v. $2.59). Steel production was down to about 47% of capacity last week, only about half of last year's production for the same period. The fact that steel continued to show a worthwhile profit while operating so low was a strong tribute to the industry's efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Betting on the Future | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...mentality has disintegrated." This week Romney pushed production up another 6% to put it 26% ahead of 1957. American's first-quarter sales were the greatest in its history (31,260 cars), and, after years of red ink, it reported a handsome $2,380,895 profit. Yet Romney's gain puts little cake in Detroit's lunch basket. Some 84% of the industry's 807,000 workers are Big Three employees, and an estimated 450,000 are laid off; millions more workers in thousands of supplier plants spread across the entire U.S. economy are dependent upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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