Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news on the Bellevue roof, exploded with surprise, put down his bourbon and water and bolted for his third-floor room. There he rounded up Illinois' Senator Scott Lucas and Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon. They held a quick council of war. Cried McMahon: "What profit is it to the party if we nominate Douglas to pick up a few congressional seats in The Bronx and then see a second Democratic Convention convening in ten days in Richmond...
Plenty of Room. Fox himself is anxious to dispel any suspicions that he stands to profit by unfair "monopoly" or "state trading." His contract, he says, affects only about 25% of the islands' total trade ($450 million in 1940), and private Indonesians are free to deal with whom they please. Competitors, he insists, are welcome-particularly from...
...steel was not due to come up for months, and probably could have been kept from final decision for years. But if they had to give in some time, steelmen figured, the''best possible time was during the present sellers' market. In addition to boosting current profit, the switch to an f.o.b. price system would bring pressure on Congress, from thousands of high-paying steel users, to authorize a return to basing points...
...need Thy help to do something about the world's true problems-the problem of lying, which is called propaganda; the problem of selfishness, which is called self-interest; the problem of greed, which is often called profit; the problem of license, disguising itself as liberty; the problem of lust, masquerading as love; the problem of materialism, the hook which is baited with security...
Fighting Trim. Fuller's 7,300 dealers buy their stock; their profit (average take: $70 a week) depends on their own initiative. Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was coughed up. Unlike the Fuller Brush man hero in the current Red Skelton film, no Fuller dealer has ever been suspected of murder, and despite legend, his erotic adventures...