Word: profitted
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...