Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expense of its colonies, Britain's leaders tried to make America serve as the Empire's farm, forest and mine, while Britain was to be its factory, financier and protector. Parliament's decrees that certain American exports could be shipped only to or through Britain cut into the profit on such products as tobacco, America's No. 1 export (102 million pounds last year). When colonial hat and wool manufacturers started to compete with English factories, Parliament likewise restricted American hat and cloth manufacturing. "The erection of manufactories in the Colonies tends to lessen their dependence on Great Britain," reads...
...overlooked fact that land transportation throughout the Colonies is still slow (four days by stagecoach from Boston to New York), and there is not a single bank comparable to the great financial institutions of Europe. "For what purpose were [the Colonists] suffered to go to that country unless the profit of their labor should return to their masters here?" asked the Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine if this child of your old age, with...
...Bowen-to seek out arms in the West Indies and Europe for 2½ percent commission. John Brown arranged to buy a cargo of gunpowder in Surinam last November and charged a price of 6 shillings a pound, which General Washington called "most exorbitant" (in December Brown made a profit of ?20,000 for such work). But the price is still rising. On Brown, Hopkins' latest shipment from the West Indies a month ago, the firm had to pay 14 shillings a pound and made the somewhat reduced profit of ?1,403. All in all, about 1 million pounds...
...calling the kettle sterling. But people gossip and debate more today about critics and commentators than about the events they cover. Brendan Gill cashed in on this new phenomenon with "Here at the New Yorker," as did Timothy Crouse with "Boys on the Bus." This summer, the scent of profit in this new field brings us a look at office politics at (it's come to this) The Village Voice...
...that O'Connell could not decline. The spring trading deadline of midnight Tuesday, June 15, was only hours away and properties worth millions of dollars would soon be worth−to Finley−exactly zero, since at season's end his recalcitrant seven could sign, at no profit to Finley, with any team they chose...