Word: reaping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since the downtown real estate is worth more than the oil potential, even Houston is not likely to go that far. But the oil is worth a lot to the city of Houston. The city holds a one-fourth interest in "City Dump No. 1," should reap $40,000 yearly from it. Trice already has begun drilling "City Dump No. 2'' on the same profits deal with Houston. Geologists figure that the 300-acre dump is good for at least 15 producing wells. Such a sea under her garbage could enrich the city government...
...consulted his form charts and then made his decision: a heavy bet on the soil bank to win. Last week, the deadline for the 1956 signup past, the Agriculture Department reported that nearly 500,000 farmers had agreed to take 10,720,749 acres out of production, would thereby reap a cash harvest of $225 million in Government payments come fall. The 1956 bank balance more than satisfied Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who had reckoned the total might be as little as 8,000,000 acres...
Take up the White Man's burden, And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard-The cry of hosts ye humor (Ah, slowly!) toward the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night...
LOUIS WOLFSON, who bought control of Washington's Capital Transit in 1949 for $2,189,160, milked it, then lost its franchise when Congress got angry about a 52-day strike, may reap even more than an estimated $5,300,000 profit for himself and his group. National City Lines of Chicago has offered to buy Capital for $13.4 million, and if deal goes through, Wolfson will receive $56 on each share for which he paid $20, emerge with a $9,500,000 total profit (before taxes), a whopping 332% return...
...their own. They had been willing to help Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser with arms in order to create mischief, but pulled back when it seemed that the mischief might turn to war-a war that could get out of hand. The Russians also undoubtedly hoped to reap an immediate benefit. What better-or more inexpensive-present could Khrushchev and Bulganin take to their hard-pressed host, Anthony Eden, than a Russian promise to work for Middle East peace...