Word: monopolistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overgrown ineptitude that had put it in there. Adolph Zukor put Paramount together in 1912. Its roots were in the days when nickelodeons were gold mines and Mary Pickford made her first $20,000 a year. An expansionist of such resolution that the trade began calling him a monopolist, Zukor bought stars and studios until Paramount and Hollywood were synonymous...
...stockbrokers whom Chairman Frank was to regulate had ever read his books. But as an alternative to Henderson, he was welcomed as the more knowing man. No foe of bigness-as-such, he had helped write NRA, had praised (in Save America First) the social value of "the intelligent monopolist," especially when subjected to government guidance. Taking office, he called SEC "in a true sense, a conservative institution," its purpose "conserving, by improving, our profit system," promised no radical departures from the Douglas regime. Then he went to work...