Word: reaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Araujo Ltd., in which Texans are said to have an interest (1,977,000 acres) and Indianapolis real estate man Stanley Selig (1,519,000 acres). Not all the land buyers are speculators; many hard-working American farmers are among those who have gone to Brazil to reap the rewards of a new frontier. One such is Farmer Henry Fuller, 38, of Houston, who owns half a million acres, grows crops and raises cattle, and plans to build a school, a church and a trading post on his land...
...constantly imperiled by the country's inability to earn its own way in the world. The decision of the major powers not to devalue works to make the British move more effective, since a me-too devaluation by everybody would largely cancel out whatever benefits Britain hopes to reap from its drastic move...
...down to $1,750 instead of $11,900 and made certain that he could lose no more than the $1,750 no matter how much the stock went up. Though most options are sold to speculators, market tacticians also use them in complex hedging maneuvers to protect paper profits, reap tax benefits, or limit the chance of losses. Bernard Baruch used them to grab control of whole companies-without disturbing the market...
...They concede the need to prop profits against the pressure of higher wage, transportation and other costs. But with industrial plants running at a slack 85% of capacity (v. last year's 91% peak), they also suspect business of using any pretext to raise prices in order to reap a windfall of earnings as the economy picks up. Reflecting this root distrust, Ackley recently took special pains to chide the rubber industry for following a strike-forced labor settlement that was "clearly out of line" with price hikes "even greater than the added costs of the wage agreement...
Unfortunately, the two men did not own their films, and thus did not reap any income from reruns. During their last years-Ollie died at 65 in 1957, Stan at 74 in 1965-neither was independently wealthy...