Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hurwich, 46, an M.I.T.-trained mechanical engineer, puts in 55 to 60 hours a week as president of Dymo. Even in his spare time, he keeps pursuing many personal interests that he manages to turn to profit. A flying buff, he owns a small air-taxi service with a fleet of three STOL (for short takeoff and landing) airplanes in the San Francisco area...
...understaffed government airline that has a nominal monopoly on Vietnamese commercial air travel. Having assembled a motley but eminently suitable short-haul fleet led by eight vintage C-47 transports, CAS expects to take in at least $9,000,000 this year and make its first annual profit...
Gardner is constantly on the lookout for new uses of the data already in the computers' memory drums. A service called Gasoline Profit Index, for example, helps oil companies find locations for service stations by providing a block-by-block profile of any neighborhood in any U.S. city: how many cars are owned there, what makes and vintage, by men or women, of what age. Since Cadillacs use more gasoline than Falcons, and eight-cylinder engines more than six-cylinders, since women do not drive as much as men, it is possible to estimate down to the number...
...deep--was left to brood about. Onanism and homosexuality were not, to Mailer, light vices--to him it sometimes seemed that much of life and most of society were designed precisely to drive men deep into onanism and homosexuality; one defied such a fate by sweeping up the psychic profit which derived from the existential assertion of yourself--which was a way of saying that nobody was born a man; you earned manhood provided you were good enough; bold enough...
...minister stated that black people must exercise their power as consumers in order to create an identity for themselves. He cited the success of his efforts to force the 40 A & P stores in Chicago's black neighborhoods to hire black managers and invest their profit in black banks as proof that blacks could gain tangible advantages from consumer boycott tactics...