Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fast Profit. Military scrip was introduced three years ago as a way of curbing the growing black market in regular U.S. currency. The new red-colored MFCs were meant to be valid only in such U.S. establishments as post exchanges and officers' clubs...
...short of Vietnamese piastres often used it to pay bills in native stores and bars, generally exchanging it near the official rate of 118 piastres to the dollar. Such MFCs would then wind up in the hands of Chinese and Indian money-changers, who in turn realized a fast profit by selling them at 140 piastres to the dollar...
...reasons for the enrollment drop, Profit said, are that the community has assumed control of several PBH projects, and that most of the remaining programs have asked for far fewer volunteers...
...There is always room for the newcomer, the inexperienced," Profit said. "I'm really disturbed by the fact that we have to turn people away," he added...
There was a gap, but it was a barrier far more formidable than the barbed wire fence where a Dow guard takes away your camera while you go on your tour of the plant. It was a gap between people who enjoyed working for a profit, who accepted money flow as a measure of their success, and people like me who felt uncomfortable all day with the idea...