Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unless this 32 is unlike any that has gone before it, most of its members will feel and cause a vague dissatisfaction while they are at Oxford and when they leave Oxford they will not have settled the interminable discussion as to whether Rhodes scholars enjoy or derive profit from their three years there...
...passengers, with cafeteria as well as dining-room service. This plan, he argued, would reduce operating costs for the ship owners, would permit lower fares, would stimulate tourist travel (TIME, May 18, 1925). the cabin boats have followed Merchant Filene's general plan to their owner's profit. By reducing winter fares, as Mr. Filene also suggested, the lines have gained year-round traffic. Last week the Cosulich Line, operating between New York and Adriatic ports, announced that it would build eight new ships for Filene-plan service. Six will be of 10,000 gross tons...
...have now so standardized the cheese industry that we can go any place in the world where a milk supply is available, manufacture cheese, and sell it at a profit...
There exist about 8,500 Ford dealers. Their profit on each Ford they sell is 20%. (Dealers in other cars get 24% profit.) For six months Ford dealers have been clearing their show rooms of Model T Fords and parts. A fortnight ago all were bare. Last week most continued bare, for the Ford Motor Co. had prepared only about 550 new cars for exhibition. However its production will approximate 1,000 cars a week by January. (The company operates only five days a week.) The aim is 8,000 cars a week. Dealers will deliver very few cars...
...Hanbridge" of his familiar "Five Towns." With a limited education, he descended as a youth upon London and at 21 obtained a situation as a solicitor's clerk. Ten years later his first novel, A Man From the North, was published and, as he puts it, yielded profit sufficient for a new hat. A prodigious worker, he was soon evolving the printed word at a tremendous rate, Vanguard being the 62nd volume to bear his name. His best-known and perhaps most successful effort is The Old Wives' Tale...