"Global must have paid a fortune for him".
Saunders guessed at a 14-month run, the most optimistic forecast of anybody connected with the show, but it produced a fortune for him.
Turning out one rod every three and a half working days, on average, will not earn a fortune for him or his sole employee, Colin Whitehouse.
Still, if Mr. Paciello is indeed the government's secret witness, it would signal a rapid change of fortune for him.
Rhodes & Company prospered through the marketing and transportation of coal and iron, and by 1885 James Ford Rhodes had acquired a fortune sufficient for him to retire.
To be fair, some of his ventures did end up making a fortune — just not for him.
Indignant statement made by blonde to brunette, in Herald Square: "It cost me a fortune to pose for him, and then it turned out his family never lived in Tuckahoe at all".
The New Yorker, June 8 , 1957P. 26 Indignant statement made by blonde to brunette, in Herald Square: "It cost me a fortune to pose for him, and then it turned out his family never lived in Tuckahoe at all".
By Gordon B. Laing and St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, June 8 , 1957P. 26 Indignant statement made by blonde to brunette, in Herald Square: "It cost me a fortune to pose for him, and then it turned out his family never lived in Tuckahoe at all".
Half a dozen years ago, when his fortunes had improved sufficiently for him to move out of a tiny Lower East Side apartment, Mr. Siriano decided to make his next perch a loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
