Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France and Italy shall profit not a jot by the easy terms accorded Belgium, if Mr. Coolidge has his way. They will be examined impartially as to paying power, and then fitted out with an inflexible outfit of liquidation terms, cut along a take-it-or-leave-it Yankee pattern...
...Loss to the miners of more than $1,000,000 per day in pay. Loss to operators oi perhaps $100,000 per day profit...
...best club in London. What is more, it is also the cheapest. Before the War it was subsidized by the Treasury, but nowadays it has to pay its own way. How well it does this is told by a few simple figures: last year the restaurant made $500 profit on a turnover of about...
...then charged that the price of food was sacrificed to the supply of cheap liquor. This, too, was easily disproved. It is true that Parliamentarians do not drink nearly as much as they used to during the past century when everybody drank and was drunk, but whatever profit is made out of liquid refreshments in the restaurant is immediately applied to reduce the cost of foodstuffs...
...difference which had not been settled by that time. The miners charged that this advertising was unnecessary and that it would increase the cost of coal. The operators answered that the cost would not amount to more than a few mills per ton, and would be charged to profit and loss, not to operating expenses...