During the war, there had been gross examples of profiteering just as there had been occasional local strikes, but by and large the operators like the miners had conducted themselves conscientiously as servants of the republic.
But within a year after the armistice, speculative profiteering was rampant and the coal industry was paralyzed by a general strike.
Because business administration had been dependent for its existence on a scheme of profiteering it is not in the position where it can appeal to labor to contribute its productive power in the spirit of patriotic abandon.
Such productive educational experiments in the absence of profiteeringwould give meaning to the early years of industrial life which now lead the children nowhere.
The eloquent avenger of the exploited ingenuously discloses the means by which the profiteering exploiters can continue 'their stupid and criminal error', their 'flagrant injustice' for as long as possible.
We are familiar with the rent profiteering legislation enacted in the District of Columbia, New York and at least five other States, as a result of the house shortage created by the world war.
There will be an enormous temptation to smuggling and profiteering which will reach a height far surpassing all scandals of the war and revolution periods.
They are manifold and diverse, and they are moreover intensified by the spectacle of extravagance offered by the profiteering class and the licence of social life.
Profiteering since the beginning of the war has been more flagrant than ever.
Thus although at first sight it might appear that the Super-Capitalist must desire to maintain the existing order of things, if he is far-seeing he must realize that profiteering under present conditions must soon cease.
While we have eliminated profiteering in several branches of industry, it still runs impudently rampant in others.
The present New York price, to be sure, represents a profiteering war price.
Although well to do farmers, their economic instincts warned them to beware the profiteering hotel keepers.
Those food people in Mincing Lane are profiteering out of all conscience, and Durrant's absence is only what might well be expected.
In these post-war profiteering days it is only by callous dishonour and double-dealing one can make both ends meet.
One sees this profiteering landlord, once more wide awake, busy at his desk with pencil and paper, scowling conscientiously as he endeavors to figure out exactly what a just rent will be.
It was soon fanned to a flame by the brazen profiteering of the lumber trust.
Profiteering might be condoned, moralized over or winked at, but militant labor unionism was a menace to the government and the prosecution of the war.
I did not then know that this was due to the nationalization of trade and a sort of general stock-taking, the object of which was to prevent profiteering in manufactured goods, etc.
We have had a large measure of voluntary coöperation both from producers, manufacturers and wholesalers, in suppression of profiteering and speculation.
In general, for the first twelve months of the Food Administration the prices to the farmer increased, but decreased to the consumer by the elimination of profiteering and speculation.
This was due to the large suppression of profiteering and speculation and to the more orderly trade practices introduced under the law.
The Food Administration continues through the armistice until legal peace and there will be no relaxation of efforts to keep down profiteering and speculation to the last moment.
Are you aware that, owing to profiteering in the cloth trade, organ-grinders have been unable to provide their Simian assistants with proper habiliments during the recent inclement weather?
At the next meeting evidence will be taken on the subject of the housing of musical seals and the alleged profiteering of dealers in burnt cork at the expense of players in Jazz-bands.
Profiteering and speculation were rampant and inefficiency was the order of the day.
Well, when she came home from Europe she found that she owned a row of tenements like this one, and her agent was profiteering in rents like most of the others.
The cry of profiteering may hinder a real solution of the difficulty by diverting attention from the real issue and fanning and giving up an object to the spirit of revolt.
The complexities of the various trade practices lumped together under the term profiteering are illustrated in the pamphlet on Profiteering, issued by W.
How canprofiteering be discriminated from legitimate profit-taking?
How, too, can its existence be proved, for high fixed prices are not always an evidence ofprofiteering methods.
The plebeians were suffering severely from the after-war usury and profiteering of the patricians, and were incurring heavy debts in rebuilding and restocking their farms.
Multitudes of people were living in a state of exasperating congestion, and the most shameless profiteering in apartments and houses was going on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profiteering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
