Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will enable strong competitors to take advantage of a temporary weak condition of smaller concerns. And, on the other hand, fraudulent concerns would gladly pay a few thousand dollars a year, falsely disguised as profit, in order to mislead the public. People who wish to disguise their wealth will be stimulated to further evasion. It can add nothing to revenue returns...
...Distribution, Selling, and Advertising" will appear written by Mr. Henry S. Dennison '99, president of the Dennison Manufacturing Company of Framingham. Mr. Dennison was Assistant Director of the government's Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics during the war, and in 1918 was one of the authors of "Profit Sharing...
Within the narrow limits of the university world a system of prizes and honors--letters, keys, and cups--has called forth competitive activities noless rigorous than those induced in the greater world by the hope of pecuniary profit. The establishment of prizes, such as the Pulitzer and Carnegie awards whose significance is largely honorary, is a step toward substituting a more altruistic spur for the traditional goad of gain in the common walks of life. When the "man on the street" will strive as cagerly for such prizes as the student does for his major letter--or the graduate...
...that by it the Government would lose for all time its nitrate plants, steam plants and Waco Quarry and receive for them only $5,000,000, whereas under the other plans the Government would retain ownership of plants as well as dams, and receive probably as great or greater profit. Major General C. C. Williams, Chief of Ordnance of the War Department, estimated that under the Ford Plan the Government would receive $115,906,896 in 50 years; under the Power Companies Plan $134,909,320; and under the Hooker-White-Atterbury Plan...
...process; $271 million in cash, accounts receivable, etc.; and $20 million good will. The large cash item also includes securities, patent rights and trademarks. As against these, the liabilities consist of $17 million capital stock; $71 million accounts payable; $37 million reserve for Federal taxes, etc.; $442 million in profit and loss surplus. The astonishing ratio of surplus to capital-26-1- is probably unequalled by any other company in this country if not in the world...