Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main considerations moved the Faculty to its decision. It believes that the teaching staff has too much to do and that the students will profit by less instruction and more independent study...
Gibbs then made the point that "The Virgin Man", the recently censored New York play, was about to be taken off because it was a poor play and was returning no profit. Then the police stepped in, and the rush became general...
...Rothschild of Vienna, "The House of Rothschild is so rich that it cannot do bad business." It has done hundreds of times such "business" as to take over securities at 100, send them to 130 by the sheer weight of the Rothschild name, sell out next day at a profit of 30, then depress the securities to 70 by announcing the securities had been abandoned by the Rothschilds, and finally buy them back with a total profit of 60% on the whole manipulation...
...great, although rarely admitted, obstacle to consolidations of Christian denominations, is property. No owner of tangible property likes to trade without profit. None the less, Universalists and Congregationalists have sought union. Since 1925 a commission of the National Council of Congregational Churches has conferred with a like commission of the Universalist General Convention...
...could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale of parts. In 1919 its parts profits were $80,000,000. Now there are 12,000,000 Fords on the road which need supplies. Wealthy Fools. It is "folly to make fools wealthy," Henry Ford told his inventor, Italian-born Antonio Felix Pajalich, asserts the inventor...