Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal to eliminate private profit in the production of munitions & warships...
Only recently have Colombia's adamantine mountains been conquered-by commercial air routes. Today the Scadta ("Colombian-German Air Transport Corporation") headed by smart, efficient Herr P. P. Bauer, is probably the only unsubsidized passenger and freight air service in the world which is showing a really handsome profit. All the great European air lines are state-subsidized and relatively cheap (Paris to Berlin-eight hours-$50). Colombians are glad to pay relatively dear ($200) to be flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according...
...debts of the Mercury are paid, said Editor Mencken; it is showing a profit. Advertisers are faithful and enthusiastic. Imitators of the magazine have turned up, but the Mercurians never fail to "distinguish between the simon pure article and the second best." All enemies have been overcome, even to the "wowsers" of Boston...
...acetone; $20,000,000 worth of dissolved acetylene is sold over the world each year. He invented a way of liquefying air; the Air Reduction Co. has 30 plants using his process, is worth $25,000,000. He created neon lamps; cities and airports now glow redly, to his profit. He put waste coke oven gases under hyperpressures and low temperatures and got pure hydrogen, benzine, ethylene, nitrogen (fertilizer) compounds; vast factories run day & night in France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, but the Du Ponts' $10,000,000 Lazote plant at Belle, W. Va., which has U. S. rights...
...investor had bought and paid for one share of each of these stocks in October, his bill would have been $3,143.00. In. November he could have sold them for $4,533.50, realizing an average profit of about $75 a share. Actually, much paper profit was turned into cash on the market's only day of weakness (Wednesday). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Brothers Fisher sold their 300,000-share holdings of Radio. Their investment cannot have netted them less than $30,000,000, may have made...