Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denunciation. Before the Post Offices and Post Roads Committee could act on his request for a Farley investigation he offered another resolution ordering Secretary Ickes to send to the Senate any reports by his investigators about attempts by Mr. Farley or companies in which he is interested to profit from PWA contracts. It was a shrewd move, for Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley have clashed on many points; Mr. Ickes' investigators have been tireless in investigating PWA bids. It was calculated not only to find scandal ready-made but to cause a split in the Cabinet. Regular Democrats looked...
Snapshotters and Hollywood are supposed to account for one-half of Eastman's unrevealed sales. Other big Eastman film outlets are amateur cinema, X-ray and professional still photography - all of which have grown amazingly since the War. Probably its biggest single source of profit is the foreign business, which is worldwide. But fastest-growing division is cellulose acetate, which Eastman uses as a base for safety film but also markets in various forms including Kodapak, competitive with Du Pont Cellophane...
...CRIMSON to show, perhaps not without humor, that, were the CRIMSON editors and the Liberal Club members comparable as commentators on public affairs, the implied slur by the CRIMSON on the capacity of the Liberal Club would be accurate. Yet consistency is a virtue which can be practices with profit by the CRIMSON. And, finally, indulging in what is perhaps a pardonable personality, it seems to me that if the CRIMSON can demonstrate the economic harm to and plead for social justice for the Chinese in the editorial "The Orient's Silver" it is quite inconsistent to inveigh...
...inflation, a rich man might have the greater part of his fortune expropriated. In an inflation such as the one Germany passed through after the war, even a small investor would suffer. If he owned a gold ring worth a little over a mark, he would make a mark profit of over a trillion marks, on which he would have to pay the tax. No wonder the threat of inflation scares American property-holders and forms a definite deterrent to recovery...
...Lampoon building will not be closed; laundry may be taken there, or bills paid just as during the first part of the year. The reorganization simply means that the control over computing bills, taking in the payments, etc., has gone to the New England Laundries. The majority of the profit still goes to students. Very truly yours, Dayton Wood Hull...