Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the ensuing debate over the Coop and its policies, it has become clear that the Coop is neither as evil nor as able to do good as Profit and the members of the insurgent slate had initially believed. Contrary to earlier insinuations, the Coop does not pay uniquely low wages, nor do its hiring practices discriminate against blacks and other minority groups. Because it pays back its profits in the form of patronage refunds, the Coop could probably find very little money to invest in community-oriented projects, and its tax position severely limits the use of whatever money...
...musicians, who call themselves the "Gorilla Band," offered a blatantly sardonic, nose-thumbing rendition of favorite American songs like Yankee-Doodle The plays included an antiwar skit with the central image of a crutch topped by a meat grinder, a 15th century farce about the evils of the profit system and a puppet show featuring little black panthers and a little white "fuzz...
...WHITE HELP. Some of the most promising new businesses have been initiated by white businessmen, drawn to the ghetto by mixed motives of social activism, self-protection and profit...
...Operation Breadbasket have forced major Chicago food chains to stock such products of Negro concerns as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. As a result, Mumbo-maker Argia B. Collins, 42, tripled his sales in 1967. This year, after a seven-year struggle, he expects to earn a profit...
...first action of the new organization was to endorse the regular Coop slate for board of directors. Raines said, "The opposition (led by Wesley E. Profit '69) had two good points. But we feel that the election of the opposition would only harm those issues. We proposed endorsing the regular slate and then electing the student members democratically. The HPU vote was close on whether to remain neutral or to endorse the Coop slate...