The slaves never shared in their profits, while they did share, in a very real sense, in the profits of the slave-owners: they were fed, clothed, doctored, and so forth ; ;

All were licensed by Frederick Warne & Co. and earned Potter an independent income as well as immense profits for her publisher.

And accordingly, the directors were required to disgorge the profits that they made, and the shareholders received their windfall.

Cubans were torn between desire for the profits generated by sugar and a repugnance for slavery, which they saw as morally, politically, and racially dangerous to their society.

It was also addictive, since the speculative profits of trade and capital creation were quite large.

Development rights were also nationalised while the government attempted to take all development profits for the State.

Competition between canners was fierce because profits were thin.

Those were undoubtedly major steps backwards .... Colonialism was not merely a system of exploitation, but one whose essential purpose was to repatriate the profits to the so-called ‘ mother country ’.

Unfortunately, the profits were not as high as William expected and they started having financial difficulties.

Many companies saw that there were good profits to be made in the calculator business with the margin on these high prices.

In this case the profits made by a defecting spy, George Blake, for the publication of his book, were awarded to the British Government for breach of contract.

Two of the most popular of the period were of Pomona ( goddess of orchards ) as a metaphor for Agriculture, and Diana, representing Commerce, which is a perpetual hunt for advantage and profits.

A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence that the companies would turn future profits, individual speculation in stocks, and widely available venture capital created an environment in which many investors were willing to overlook traditional metrics such as P / E ratio in favor of confidence in technological advancements.

Repeated attempts to open trade were opposed on both commercial and humanitarian grounds, although minor reforms in the 1850s and 60s lowered the prices charged to the natives for " luxuries " like sugar and coffee ; transferred more of the KGH's profits to local communities ; and granted the important Ivigtut cryolite concession to a separate company.

The result was that prices of German export products held steady, while profits and earnings from exports soared and were poured back into the economy.

They were entitled to two shares of the profits or the losses of the company.

King Agadja ( 1708 – 1740 ) attempted to end the slave trade by keeping the slaves on plantations producing palm oil, but the European profits on slaves and Dahomey's dependency on firearms were too great.

One of the original Hong Kong trading houses or Hongs that date back to Imperial China, as of December 2010, 41 % of the company's profits were still earned in China.

* 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

The reducciones, where the Jesuits sponsored orchestras, musical ensembles and actors ' troupes, and in which virtually all the profits derived from Indian labor were distributed to the laborers, earned praise from some of the leading lights of the French enlightenment, who were not predisposed to favor Jesuits.

While Colorado politicians raked in the profits and themselves became large landowners, peasant squatters who had farmed the land for generations were forced to vacate and, in many cases, to emigrate.

Often profits were so high the owners were able to buy the house next door to live in, turning every room in their former home into bars and lounges for customers.

it is a tax benefit which might be of substantial value to a corporation which expects to have a high excess profits tax.

The book observed that Turner “ discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company ” and “ discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine, a tax-depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment .” In the late 1960s, Turner used the profits to buy Southern radio stations.

Wages, profits, and productivity all made substantial gains during the 1920s.

The global integration of economies effected by these agreements has resulted in a gradual shift of the composition of wealth among the elites in many large industrial states, from industrial activities, whose proceeds derived mostly from domestic sales, to financial activities, whose profits are stem from substantial investments in foreign trade, including developing markets.

Sums of money which are substantial, but very much smaller than the promised profits, are said to be required in advance for bribes, fees, etc.

Because smuggling can generate substantial profits for those involved, which in turn can fuel corruption and organized crime in countries traveled from, through, or to during the smuggling process.

Scholars differ on whether the tours made substantial profits.

After Concorde was privatised, cost reduction measures ( notably the closing of the metallurgical wing testing site which had done enough temperature cycles to validate the aircraft through to 2010 ) and ticket price raises led to substantial profits.

* The companies engaged in the mail-order-bride business earn substantial profits.

Unlike the First World War, when Irish farmers had made substantial profits selling food to Britain, in the Second World War, Britain imposed strict price controls on Irish agricultural imports.

However, Lance, resenting Tommy's substantial share of their profits, makes a back-room deal with the Forellis to topple the Vercetti family, and informs Sonny that the tribute money is counterfeit.

The result, paradoxically, was a substantial increase in Post Office profits ; for, while the higher valued Columbians and Trans-Mississippis had sold only about 20, 000 copies apiece, the public bought well over five million of every Pan-American denomination.

The Egypt Air Holding Company has recorded substantial profits in past years, reaching US $ 170 million during the 2007 / 2008 financial year.

There was substantial competition in the brick business, which was affected by cyclical business swings, and after several trips to sell bricks and the brick-making machines, Wharton found the prospects for making good profits were dim.

Fuji attempted to diversify its domestic services, establishing Fuji Securities and Fuji Trust & Banking Co. in 1994, but neither subsidiary was able to make substantial profits.

During the dot-com boom, some alternate root providers believed that there were substantial profits to be made from providing alternative top-level domains.

The comedians at the club became unhappy when the club was expanded several times and it was perceived that Shore's profits were quite substantial.

He was appointed Chairman of the Board ( a nominal job for which he had not to do anything ) and in return for giving British Lion first option on all his output, Edgar's contract gave him, incredibly, an annual salary, plus a substantial block of stock in the company, plus a large stipend from everything British Lion produced based on his work, plus 10 % of British Lion's overall annual profits!

In War Is A Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidised by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.

He obtained significant land holdings and made substantial profits.

As soon as the price reaches the desired level criminals immediately sell off their holdings of those stocks ( the " dump "), previously purchased at the " un-pumped " price, realizing substantial profits before the stock price falls back to its usual low level.

Ford ’ s decision to increase wages so dramatically ( doubling for most workers ) is most plausibly portrayed as the consequence of efficiency wage considerations, with the structure being consistent, evidence of substantial queues for Ford jobs, and significant increases in productivity and profits at Ford.

Ford ’ s new wage put him in the position of rationing jobs, and increased wages did yield substantial productivity benefits and profits.

Since 2006, Lee has accrued substantial profits from his holdings of Mainland-controlled stocks.