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Word: profiteer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...session also advanced two additional suggestions as amendments to the Committee's constitution for compulsory profit splitting and for interchangeability of tickets for all fall dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dance Committee Enriches Houses By Profits Split | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...Coop believes in plenty of wreath and ribbon, and the store has been thoroughly festooned with them. For those who yearn for a big profit check next fall, and for those who want to do most of their shopping in one place, shuttling from department to department, the Coop has what it takes. And it has a fine collection of candles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Spirit Catches Square; Merchants Finish Holiday Trim Job | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...only one, apparently, who had not made a profit was Goldsmith. He ruefully admitted that he had not followed his own advice-and had lost on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Tell Me, Ouija ... | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...admen's plaints were echoed by many a telecaster. Of the 42 television stations now operating in 22 cities, not one has yet shown a profit, and many of them could not even see a clear prospect of profit. Small stations were losing between $10,000 and $25,000 a month, and even the big networks found it a heavy drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: High-Priced Revolution | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Pretty Picture. Eastman Kodak Co., which has had a profit-sharing plan since 1912, will cut a fat melon. It will distribute a wage dividend of around $13 million for 1948. The 51,500 eligible employees will receive 2.25% of the pay they got from the company from 1944 through 1948. Typical bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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