Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the Treasury, as yet -wants to make defense-bond buying compulsory. But the flood of money in the country has risen dangerously high. The Wall Street Journal had the idea-of-the-week: dangle the profit motive in front of income-earners. Encourage petiple to hand over their cash to the Government, suggested the Journal, by letting them deduct from their income taxes 10% of every dollar they invest in defense bonds. The Journal thought that thus the Government could 1) sell plenty of bonds to cheerful buyers, 2) perhaps even get away with paying no interest...
When World War II began, German-born George Viereck again peddled ideology for the Fatherland and profit. A naturalized U.S. citizen, registered in Washington as a German-paid "author and journalist," he had a legal peddler's license, drew down more than $100,000 for lauding Adolf Hitler and excoriating the British. Still confident that there was no "infallible safeguard" against propaganda, he said: "I have always regarded it almost a consecration to interpret the land of my fathers to the land of my children...
...Cases. Replying to this case for caution, India makes several cases. But they all agree that high-minded British liberalism is still much less evident than imperial British greed. Anti-British India cannot forget the long exploitation of India through British business and finance. It accuses British lust for profit and fear of Indian industrial competition of keeping India's population 75% supported by agriculture, only 2% by modern industry...
...sensational as the extreme internationalism of its political program. It held that "a new order of economic life is both imminent and imperative" -a new order that is sure to come either "through voluntary cooperation within the framework of democracy or through explosive political revolution." Without condemning the profit motive as such, it denounced various defects in the profit system for breeding war, demagogues and dictators, "mass unemployment, widespread dispossession from homes and farms, destitution, lack of opportunity for youth and of security for old age." Instead, "the church must demand economic arrangements measured by human welfare . . . must appeal...
...contribute ⅓ of their monthly profit-sharing to a Separation Wage Fund, matched by a ⅔ company contribution...