Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American Woolen Co. (world's leading cloth manufacturer), loss $1,262,263, as compared to 1927 profit...
...self-exploitation nor for profit but as a gesture of international friendliness," there sailed from Manhattan last week on the S.S. Leviathan the sixty members of the Dayton (Ohio) Westminster Choir, for a two-month European tour beginning with seven concerts in England, going then to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and back through southern Germany, Switzerland and France...
...million gallons a year. Every day eight and a half million glasses of Coca-Cola are drained to their sugary dregs. Operating 13 syrup factories, the company is one of the largest single consumers of sugar in the world. Many a railroad, many a steel company makes less profit than proceeds from this 5?drink...
...boasted of their victory is far from our purpose. Harvard feels that the contest provides an interesting comparison of educational methods and results. Yale does not feel that any definite results can be determined. The omission of the contest from this year's program of news items for the profit of the press should turn out to be a wise move. --Yale News...
...define production as making things to sell, and selling as getting rid of the goods, we can define the financial end of business as finding where the profit is; and it is in the treasurer's department that most businesses are made or broken. A friend of mine once said...