Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked to be heard. The railroads as a group, the National Association of Manufacturers and several trade associations complained, but no nationally known firms. No famed industrialists protested. Some businessmen thought the tax bill was sound in aim. Many considered it half-baked but relatively harmless. Some expected to profit by it. And most of those who expected to be pinched by higher taxes were either resigned to their fate or convinced of the uselessness of complaint. Therefore only twice during last week's hearings were committee ears held close enough to the grindstone to be rubbed...
...block of stock, had exhausted the best of its ores, Crane at 40 reluctantly abandoned the sea, plunged into a study of mining methods in the U. S. and South America, invented an underground shovel, became head of the company, worked low-grade lead ores at a profit, using one-third the former man power. At 56 he found time to design the America's Cup yacht Weetamoe. The same year he got a D.Sc. degree from Colorado School of Mines. Now white-haired, straight as a ramrod, he still designs boats for his friends, says...
Commissions from the advertising bureau earned the A. M. A. $26,224 last year. The Directory sold 8,280 copies at $15 each since it was issued in 1934. A new edition is being prepared, and the profit or loss of the old is ignored. The Index, a frankly philanthropic publication, cost the A. M. A. $44,439 last year...
...circulation of 86,745 at the end of last year and lost $31,311. At the same time Hygeia's competitive publication, Parents' Magazine, which was founded in 1925 by laymen who paid keen attention to their business, had a circulation of 365,197 and a substantial profit...
Insisting that "the price of peace is greater than any panacea yet suggested," Norman Thomas strongly advocated the complete abolition of the profit system and of nationalism as "our dominant religion." "If America goes to war," he said, "it will be because the owning class decides that war is for its own interests...