Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guaranteed production: 40,000 tons annually of fixed nitrogen for fertilization at maximum profit of 8%; no guarantee as to quantity, if any, or price of electric power available to the public...
...Guaranteed production: as much fertilizer as can be manufactured with a maximum of 25% of the power generated by dams and steam plants, the power to be furnished at 10% less than the going rate at Muscle Shoals, the maximum profit on fertilizer to be 8%. Other power to be sold...
...reported to contain a guaranteed return to the Government of $120,000,000 under a 50-year lease. For the manufacture of fertilizer 50,000 horsepower was guaranteed; the fertilizer to be sold at cost plus 5%, and half of the profit to be devoted to research work. Three quarters of the profit from the sale of hydro-electric power was to go to the Government...
Commenting on the recent player-writer problem which has been stirring the tennis world, Major F. W. Moore '93. Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association, heartily endorse the stand taken by the United States Lawn tennis Association, which will bar from amateur ranks year stars who profit substantially from there newspaper work...
...much easier to get people to hate, than love one another, with equal intensity, and without a development of good will among people of the state, such as economists and efficientists secured during the war, a socialistic form of government could not be reproduced. An incentive to dispense with profit-making would insure this...