Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broderick Hartwell, Briton, who has been offering his countrymen 20 per cent profit every. 60 days in his project of bringing rum to America, was outdone by a Scotsman, one Nicholson, who offered 25 per cent re-turn for the same period from a similar enterprise. A Liberal in Parliament called this a "blackguardly prostitution of the British flag...
...share, as compared with $7,692,039 or $2.65 a share in 1922. The fact that net sales rose from $168,786,350 in 1922 to $186,261,381 last year shows that the Company's business was carried on at diminishing rate of profit...
President C. B. Seger in his statement to stockholders stressed the satisfactory progress made by the company's rubber plantations in Sumatra and Malay Peninsula. The plantations enable U. S. Rubber to obtain cheap and uniformly pure crude rubber. Last year they earned a profit. But the profits and the accumulated surplus of the plantation companies are not included in the consolidated statement of the U. S. Rubber...
Nothing, certainly, would be more pleasant for the undergraduate than the institution of an invitation system for football games. As one of those most interested and consequently most favored, he would be benefited by such a change more than anyone else. The alumni, also, would profit a little. But if the object of such an innovation were to stamp out commercialism in college athletics, it would very probably fall...
...university, and the remainder proceed directly from high school to their chosen vocation, for which no special training may be necessary. It hardly seems, therefore, either that there is a genuine need for any new type of institution, or that existing college standards need be lowered. Those who can profit by a college education are well able to meet the present requirements...