Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great corporations snatch at such new knowledge and profit from the usufructs. General Motors, General Electric, Westinghouse, Bell Telephone, U. S. Steel and others have their own research staffs. The research leaders. The fine character, the sure knowledge and the adept application of the men who lead industrial research in this country have done incalculable good in this persuasion of industrialists. Those described in Maurice Holland's Industrial Explorers epitomize the profession. For example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories...
William Hastings Bassett, 60, led the research into the microstructure of copper and its alloys. And from this came dependable, non-corrosive water and steam pipes, boiler tubes to the profit of the American Brass Co., whose technical superintendent...
...Mile. Each roadway mile of the Santa Fe Railroad earned a profit of $4,492 in 1927. The gross revenue per mile was $25.802, of which $19,477 came from freight (1,802,759 tons...
...weeks time, however, the bare, picturesque feet of Portugal will be shod. Naturally shoe purveying acquaintances of General Carmona will profit...
...another honor and reward. She won the annual prize of $5,000 given by Pictorial Review magazine to the U. S. woman who has made the greatest contribution to art, letters, science or the social sciences. None doubted that Miss Berry would immediately turn the $5,000 to profit for her school...