Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit on each dollar wangled in this...
...Technology are here not entirely for the pleasures of the University. More important than that is the idea that their education will be put directly to the service of their country. The knowledge derived here by Americans is largely to be used later on for their own profit, but there is no direct call for the building of the nation...
...fact that when Thomas Jefferson used the phrase, borrowed from John Locke, "all men are created equal," he had no intention of giving voice to the idea that all men are born with equal capacity for thought, equal gifts for leadership, equal potentiality of personality, equal ability to profit by the pursuit of higher learning. In the Virginia Bill of Rights, which he wrote some weeks before he drafted the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson used the more concise and definite sentence, "all men are by nature equally free." There is here no ground for the idea of equality of natural...
...triumph of education which they once thought them. Instead, they are now seeking a way back to Jeffersonian democracy in education, a method of unscrambling the egg, a system which shall restore to higher education its democratic duty of confining its ministrations to minds willing and able to profit by care and direction...
...there be an international cartel to limit production, eliminate too stiff world competition. Members of it would be the five biggest motormaking nations: the U. S. (80% of world production). France, England, Canada and Germany. Since many U. S. companies find in exports their margin of profit, and since the U. S. has lost ground abroad during the past two years, such a cartel might not be repugnant to big U. S. producers...