Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broadway, has been seen there by 1,750,000 people, has earned there gross receipts of $3,000,000. The total gross. receipts from the play, including the road companies, playing to 7,000-000 more people, are about $20,000,000, of which Miss Nichols' personal profit has been $5,000000.† And last week, after four years of bickering, a deal for the moving picture rights was completed. The terms were not made public. The Famous Players-Lasky Corp. supposedly gave Miss Nichols a huge cash payment and a percentage of receipts...
...Youngman '29, Business Chairman of the 1929 Red oBok, has suggested that the book be run from the business end by some members of the Business School not connected with the class, for their own profit. Such men could use their own influence "without recourse to the dirty business of using the influence of individual members of the class," it is claimed...
...Root and practically every important statesman of Europe have written articles for Foreign Affairs - not the usual thoughtful "hand-out" monographs. The list of contributors includes Statesmen Herriot, Stresemann, Vandervelde, Bethlen, Masaryk, Poincare, Benes, etc. Foreign Affaires is not published for profit...
...they were "ready to support some wars and not others." Only 95 held to the traditional view that any war declared by the recognized authority of their country would receive their active cooperation. Almost all the delegates declared their belief that the "present economic system based on production for profit rather than production for use is wrong" while 592 agreed that the present system should be displaced by "a cooperative distribution system in which the workers themselves would share in the control...
...Steel Corp. having declared a 40% stock dividend, President Coolidge, among 90,000 others, heard the news with personal interest. Holder of some 50 shares, he will receive 20 more, the dividend taking that form. It is estimated the shares should yield a profit of from...