Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operators buy 500-lb. to 700-lb. calves from ranchers, gorge them on a special, high-protein diet until the cattle reach the optimum slaughter weight of 1,100 lbs., then resell them to packers for about the same price per pound that they paid. They corral a profit if the expense of putting the added weight on the animals is less than the price that the added poundage brings...
...Helpful Profit. Some operators may not be able to hold out until then. During the past five years, attracted by the vision of profits on the hoof, investors from Wall Street and other homes off the range stampeded into the feed-lot business, starting many new lots in the Texas Panhandle. Many were thinly financed because their owners thought that beef prices would always go up, ensuring that additional capital would be easy to raise. Now they are having trouble raising new money, and the betting in the trade is that a number will have to liquidate...
...trade and challenge the successful students. I went to the upper deck commissary and demanded to sell hotdogs. I hoped to combine the style of Veteran's Stadium fixture Charlie "Hotdog" Frank and the hustle of the nouveau-riche dog-men. Nevertheless, lacking the seniority to sell the high-profit-margin dogs, I settled back to the 35-cent cokes and prayed for an instant heat wave...
...Calley, along with hundreds of thousands of other American military forces, was not sent to Korea and Indochina to repel aggression, or in support of freedom and independence, as officially proclaimed, but to rob the people living there of their national resources for the profit of the privileged few here in the USA. This was made splendidly clear, as far as Indochina is concerned at least, by President Eisenhower in a speech to the Governor's Conference in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4, 1953 in which he mentioned the rich resources of the area and mentioned tin and tungsten among others...
...Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne...