Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This means that Il Progresso, with a circulation of 81,000, undoubtedly shows a profit of $200,000 a year; that foreign language newspapers are phenomenally valuable properties...
...There are three categories of photographers-scientific, amateur and those who photograph for profit. From the last I have suffered a great deal and Princess Mary has suffered a great deal more. Such photographers have the most tiresome knack of clicking the camera just at a moment when one's mouth is wide open and some unattractive attitude is being struck by their victim. I would like to call that kind of a photographer a damned nuisance...
...this amount. The American banking group, headed by Lee, Higginson,* offered American certificates representing debentures of 20 kronor par value at $28.14. In the first day's trading in Manhattan they rose to about $35. Lucky investors who had advance orders confirmed by the bankers realized a huge profit in a few hours...
...Mercantile Corp. won the non and lucrative U. S. stamped envelope contract, making a tidy profit for Stockholder Myron Charles Taylor, now a potent U. S. Steel executive.* Not until 1917 was the contract wrested away from the Mercantile Corp. In that year, the Middle West Supply Co. submitted low bid. And as this contract is not transferable, the only way for the Mercantile Corp. and Stockholder Taylor to regain it was to buy the Middle West Supply Co. This they did. They were not again disturbed in its possession until last week...
...Dutch cinchona tree plantations. The British have small plantations in India. The northern Andes, particularly in Ecuador, where the trees are native, now produce little of the bark. The Indians, who must chop their paths through jungles to reach the isolated cinchona groves, find the labor too hard for profit. Consequently the Dutch have been able to regulate the world cinchona bark and quinine trade very much as they pleased...