Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often regarded as the prerogative of the largest cities-of Manhattan and Chicago, particularly. Last week San Antonio, Tex., had a turn, received the Chicago Civic Company with two capacity houses on the same day, paid some $50,000 for the privilege, $5,000 of which, as clear profit, was returned to the guarantors...
...before the Senate. The bill which presents it proposes that the government market the power which can be easily developed and devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. Considering that the plant cost the United States $160,000,000 and that it cannot be sold at a profit this seems a sensible project...
Such words made paternalism sound genuinely beneficent, quite omitting reference to any profit which the Parent hoped to make while teaching its sturdy children...
...English gentleman upon what I think is an outrage on humanity. . . . I believe this [film] account of the execution to be fully apocryphal [i. e. fictitious or spurious]. I feel that it is an outrage upon a noble woman's memory to turn to purposes of commercial profit so heroic a story...
President Alexander pointed to: "Great national prosperity with great business activity but a competitive struggle which has resulted in precarious profit margins...