Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around the Horn. They carried an aggregate of 110 million tons of cargo at a cost of about 90 cents a ton in tolls. Aggregate tolls have been $100,000,000. During the last year, tolls have been $2,000,000 a month, and the net operating profit about $17,000,000 or an equivalent of 4½% on the $400,000,000 cost* of the Canal...
...five more seasons of concerts will be heard inside the 43rd Street entrance, and for five years talking machines, radio apparatus and electric pianos will be sold from the 42nd Street side. Then the five-and-ten will raise its scarlet standard, and the tobacco company will begin to profit on its $6,000,000 outlay...
...furnish the Vatican with material aid; those material facilities for schools, churches, hospitals and so forth, which a lay power has at its command. For the development of Catholicism in the world, the increased millions of men who throughout the world look to Rome should be a matter of profit and pride to us who are Italians...
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...Mail made a profit of over $500 on the first night mail trip from San Francisco to New York. $2,308.48 was paid for more than 8,000 pieces of mail and at 66? a mile, which is the average figure for cost of flying operation, the Government realized $539.68 profit. There is no doubt the service can pay for itself-if the first great burst of business due to curiosity and sentiment does not fall...