Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York now in the national spotlight is supposed to use a six-ounce stein for his nickel brew. Local pourers suspect his heads foam unusually high. Another tavern on 96th Street sells ten cent beer in nine-ounce glasses, and five cent helpings in four-ounce steins. The profit here still goes to the clever samaritan who paid for the television set over your head...
Squeeze. "Ward's had just rung up its biggest profit (equal to $10.28 a share) and the vice presidents were awaiting the customary (up to 50%) bonus on their $35,000 to $45,000 salaries. No, said Avery, there would be no bonus. Instead, the same amount would be given as a salary increase. Said Vice President Charles M. Odorizzi: "We'd have to stay a whole year to collect; it was a dodge to make sure he had us where he wanted...
...succeeded his father as head of the business founded on a process for extracting bromine from the briny seas under Midland, Mich. Willard Dow had developed enough new products and processes to make the company the fourth biggest U.S. chemical manufacturer (600 products, $171 million gross and $21 million profit in 1948). Last week the directors picked two men to fill Willard Dow's shoes...
Airlines. Edward V. Rickenbacker's tightly run ("We squeeze the pennies and then we squeeze the mills") Eastern Air Lines made a profit last year, as usual. On an alltime record gross of $66.5 million, Eastern turned in a net of $2,350,000 (98? a common share), almost double the 1947 figure...
...will be an intermission for a "world famous lecturer," hawking another $1 pamphlet-"The Prince of Peace." Say the picture's pitchmen: "The film will move the most hardened sinner, comfort the most troubled." Says untroubled Live Wire Kroger Babb: "It's no sin to make a profit...