Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connection, Maclnnes (2 last week) 2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (1) 3. Airport, Hailey (3) 4. A Small Town in Germany, le Carré (4) 5. Force 10 from Navarone, MacLean (5) 6. Preserve and Protect, Drury (7) 7. The First Circle, Solzhenitsyn (9) 8. A World of Profit, Auchincloss (8) 9. The Hurricane Years, Hawley 10. The Voyeur, Sutton...
...Treasury Secretary David Kennedy. Because of the "multiplier effect" of capital outlays, each dollar of such investment adds about $2.50 to the total economy. The phenomenon worries Washington for two reasons: 1) it has an immediate inflationary effect, and 2) it could lead to industrial overcapacity followed by a profit squeeze and massive layoffs. Today the nation's factories are operating at only 84% of their capacity, well below the 90% level that normally triggers expansion...
Business Today is a non-profit student publication, published in Princeton, New Jersey four times each school year. The circulation is 200,000 distributed by personal and bulk subscription throughout the United States. The magazine is published by students for students...
...World of Profit, Auchincloss...
...Eclectic Car. In all the planning, the primary goal was to build a car that would list for less than $2,000. To do that-and still allow dealers a reasonable 17% profit (v. the usual 21% to 25% markup)-Ford had to pare the tooling costs. So it built an eclectic car. Maverick owes its front suspension to the Mustang; the steering gear comes straight from the Fairlane; the standard 105-h.p. six-cylinder engine and the rear axle were borrowed from the Falcon. Even so, Maverick's development costs added up to a hefty $71 million...