Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trippe's world trading view, such mass tourism, besides being fun for the tourist and a source of profit for Pan American Airways, is also a painless means to a practical end. It is an ideal way of spreading U.S. dollars abroad, so that the world can pay for U.S. exports. Last year American tourists spent $850 million overseas. Trippe preaches that if such spending could be multiplied, it would take much of the cost of EGA and other world recovery programs off the taxpayer's back and strengthen the U.S. as a trading nation...
...Conference is not in any sense anti-American. It has been sponsored by more than 500 scientists, college presidents, artists, writers, and professional men and women. Naturally it has been opposed and obstructed by those who profit from war and war preparations, and by those who have succumbed to the hates that have prevailed since the end of the second world...
...Board before starting expensive dental work. Said one dentist last week: "Sometimes it's a damned nuisance getting authority from some pipsqueak on the board before you can start a job, but I admit there are some chaps who would yank out a mouthful of teeth for the profit they get on the dentures. So in a socialized service I suppose we've got to put up with some interference...
Four years ago, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts was little more than a musical cafeteria where its 50 students could nibble at courses as they pleased. Established as a profit-making corporation, it had not made a profit in decades; it did not own a typewriter and did not really need one because its director could not afford a secretary...
Railroads. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. reported a net profit of $62.8 million for 1948, second biggest in its history (biggest: 1942-5 $73.6 million). But its wholly owned subsidiary, the Western Improvement Co. and its affiliates, which operate the oil, mining and timber enterprises spread beside the Santa Fe's tracks, did even better. Net profit of $11.2 million was its best ever. As in other years, the profit did not go to Santa Fe but into Western Improvement's surplus, bringing it to $58.8 million. Said Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley...