Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leave the vice-presidency of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and become its president. Soon earnings began a steady climb. The 1927 net had been about $3,000,000. The 1928 income (with eight months of Trumbull) was $4,642,000. The first six months of 1929 showed net profit of $6,140,435, almost four times the net for the first half of 1928. Able President McCleary is planning to spend $10,000,000 in plant improvements, has on hand unfilled orders for 356,845 tons of steel...
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...Charged water, sarsaparilla, ginger ale, root beer, "Kentucky nip") Net profit...
...reinstatement in the Chicago Medical Society. That society last spring ousted Dr. Schmidt, famed genitourinary surgeon, because he was a urologist as well as chief of staff of the Illinois Social Hygiene League which treats charity patients of Chicago's Public Health Institute, a clinic operating not for profit on the treatment of venereal diseases (TIME, April 22). To induce venereals to take treatments the Institute advertised in Chicago papers. To the League the Institute paid $12,000 yearly to treat charity cases, and Dr. Schmidt as a League urologist took nominal fees out of that $12,000. This...