Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuing possibility of actions by litigious persons leaves open the continuing possibility of speculation. There is no public interest, under these conditions, in permitting a handful of private litigants to exploit the general public in the hope of a wholly speculative private profit...
...canal rent is pledged to pay U. S. holders of Panama bonds. President Arias has refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead of the 6-½% interest promised them...
...resulted in a Saturnalia of waste, inefficiency, unearned exorbitant salaries and bonuses and other forms of so-called 'compensation,' corrupting expense accounts, exploitation of the public by the sale and manipulation of stocks, the 'values' of which are largely based on the hope of profit from robbing the taxpayer...
...corporate hocus-pocus," the report bristled with sardonic subheadings. Samples: Holding Companies are Devices for Fraud; The Corporate Web of I. M. M.; The Munson Maze; The Grace Enigma; The Deceptive A. G. W. I. Corporate Network; Millions Due the Government in Default, but Contractors and Lobbyists Continue to Profit...
...performance where money is taken in at the door, they are very imperfectly protected. ... If music did not pay it would be given up. If it pays, it pays out of the public's pocket. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing it is profit, and that is enough...