Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period of early struggle, and the five women should not suffer much if chosen from "easy bearing" families and given "twilight sleep." One of the couples would be "scientifically sure" to win the prize, and from his $50,000 the investor (whatever his motives) would have made the enormous profit of $1,450,000 in nine years...
...Decreed, to the discomfiture of Fascismo's capitalist well-wishers, that every merchant in Italy must display both the wholesale and retail price of his goods, and must throw open his books to the Government, which will permit him to make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the care of "indigent women and children." Said Il Duce: "Italy is prolific. She must remain prolific! The failure to contract matrimony does not result from the desires of women. The State majestically intervenes to give...
...editorial page in the form of comment. One, is offered tables showing the relative strength of different schools as Illustrated by record of their season's gains and losses. All-star elevens are passed in review. Statistics are compiled to show us just what football costs the public and profit and loss statements of the larger institutions are published. And ever present is the inevitable discussion as to the proper amount of emphasis to be placed on college sports...
...football team in intercollegiate competition to the college or university which it represents is brought home in emphatic manner. The annual report of the Yale Athletic Association States that "it will be noted that with one or two minor exceptions football is the only sport which developed a profit to the Athletic Association...
British rubber magnates want the price of rubber never to fall below 42? a pound, which represents a fair profit for the average grower of plantation rubber. To maintain that price the Stevenson Plan became effective in 1919. When rubber falls below 42? growers must curtail production; when it mounts above, they may produce to capacity. The Stevenson Plan prevents loss to growers, but does not restrict their profits. And their profits may mean loss to rubber consumers, who are thus forestalled...