Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could you sink so low in your June 10 issue to further the business profits of Los Angeles Art Dealer Martin Lowitz, a man using a lot of copycats who copy the works of another for profit and who obviously have no talent to create, or are lacking in ethical standards? FRANK O. HAMILTON Belvedere, Calif...
What they did was not done for profit or material success, for pleasure or power or selfishness. In fact, the whole effort made sense only as an attempt of people to pull together for someone else's child, on the principle of our common humanity...
...government, with himself as "principal offender," declared U Nu, had made "terrible mistakes ... a series of blunders that resulted from putting the cart before the ox." The new solutions: 1) concentrate on the basic governmental task of establishing peace and order, 2) open up industrial enterprises to people with "profit motives," and 3) suspend all nonessential economic projects, including government projects that had encouraged "thievery and pilfering." "I do not wish," said U Nu firmly, "to see the government having a finger in all sorts of economic pies...
...apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery for $80.000. "So what?" shrugged one French woman, about the price and profit. "Apples are expensive...
...tough competition for contracts, in which a penny's difference in the cost of moving a yard of dirt can be the margin between profit and loss, road builders must use all the machines - roughly $1 worth of equipment for every dollar's worth of earth moved (about 3 cu. yd. at current costs). On modern highways an average of a million cu. yd. a mile is moved...