Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...stockholders, who were served ice-cold pineapple juice during the meeting, seemed delighted. They were even more pleased by the profit charts on display. In the latest fiscal year, Hawaiian Pineapple netted a tidy $5,400,000, almost $1,000,000 more than the year before. Although the union, dominated by Communist Harry Bridges, denounced the employee explanation plan as a "company union" scheme, the employees like it. Not since 1947 has Hawaiian Pineapple been struck by Harry Bridges' union. Said Miyazaki in San Francisco last week: "It's a good company to work...
...alumni group represents a wide variety of activity, business, professional, and otherwise, Alexander Clark, Assistant Director of the Office, said in making the announcement. He explained that seniors contemplating graduate courses, especially medicine and law, could profit by talks with experienced men in these fields. Last year 409 students made use of this program...
...novels were fewer, and the better ones came from abroad. Best of the lot, and the best of all World War II novels of infantry fighting, was New Zealander Guthrie Wilson's first novel, Brave Company, a book that most writers of war novels could read with profit. Briton Alexander Baron showed that he, too, understood his infantrymen in The Wine of Etna, a novel about British troops in Sicily...
...order for social security--extended last summer to cover non-profit institutions--to become effective here, two thirds of all faculty and service personnel must vote in favor of the plan...
...Steps. Urged by their minister (grandson of Author Sheldon's minister) to emulate Christ, they react to the atomic age much as their grandparents reacted to the times of Grover Cleveland. The local department-store owner builds prayer rooms for his customers and employees and sets up a profit-sharing plan. The newspaper publisher devotes his editorial page to the pacifist point of view. ("The world would have actually been better off if our nation had stayed out of both wars entirely.") The town's aging millionaire attacks greed and monopoly as the roots of all modern evil...