Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery that it had a real rival in the U. S. potash industry is the fact that U. S. production has been subsidized by no tariff. Had the foreign producers not set up monopoly prices, the U. S. industry might have grown more slowly, but the Cartel's greed was all the "protection" that the infant industry needed. The Syndicate's final stupidity was to maintain its prices during the 1938 depression. As a result its sales to the U. S. fell from 351,445 tons to 193,609 tons (45%), while sales of domestic potash expanded...
...copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." On Sunday night, Dr. Buchman and his Groupers held a "National Meeting for Moral Re-Armament" in Constitution Hall...
...bright-eyed, cultured gentleman of 63, Rollin Kirby classifies his liberalism as "glandular," by which he means he cannot cure it. He thinks Joseph Pulitzer was also a glandular liberal. Believing that most men are kindly, generous and fair, Cartoonist Kirby has made his reputation by mercilessly caricaturing meanness, greed and hypocrisy wherever he has found them. Because he sees these qualities most often in reactionary politicians and businessmen, he has lately been more & more at odds with the front-office policies of the increasingly conservative World-Telegram...
...survey of undergraduate greed yesterday played havoe with service in House Dining Halls, as waitresses were ordered to secure a signature for every second helping and every dish not included on the menu. The white, "No Charge" slips had then to be approved by the head waitress before the order could be served...
...Hubbards as people who "eat the earth." But she has not made them all of one piece: between the crude short-changer Oscar and his greatly aspiring sister is the difference between a rat and an eagle. Not instinctive, but icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...