Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should not be raised-they should be canceled. Ordinary mail service within the U.S. should be as free as are the county agent's extremely valuable services to the farmer. If we are going on the theory that a service department of the Government should be operated for profit, then the farmer should be handsomely billed for the county agent's services, and a good stiff admission charge should be placed on all national parks and forests...
Accordingly, Hall scheduled the "Salute to Ike" dinners around the country last month (TIME, Jan. 30) and raked in a neat $4,000,000 profit, which he split with the 48 state committees-an unprecedented campaign fund to have on hand nine months before Election Day. Meanwhile, Hall shopped around for radio and TV time next fall, shrewdly reserving strategic time segments before or after such top-rated shows as This Is Your Life and The $64,000 Question, when he could count on audiences of 50 million or more. Through the foresight of his party chairman, Ike is certain...
...Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National Monument) and Southern California power interests (who profit under the present distribution of the Colorado's water...
...Pineau and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Between sessions with SEATO's other five foreign ministers, the Big Three plan to confer on the Middle East. There the troubles were not, by any means, all of Russia's making, though the Russians are ready to profit from the divisions and hatreds...
Even in the current boom, most U.S. military planemakers feel that they are in a precarious position. "In 1954 U.S. aircraft companies' profits after taxes were 3.5% of sales, v. 6% for all manufacturing. Furthermore, on military business, the profits of Douglas Aircraft, for example, were less than half the profit on civilian production. All told, in 1954 the U.S. aircraft industry netted $218 million in profits, little more than a single big company such as General Electric...