Short answer = yes. There were war profiteers in WWII (there's a popular post-WWII play that features one - my Google-fu is weak today and I can't remember the name of it). Ditto in earlier wars - Lincoln's first Secretary of the Army was, per Lincoln, so corrupt that "he'd try to steal a red-hot stove."
Short answer = yes. There were war profiteers in WWII (there's a popular post-WWII play that features one - my Google-fu is weak today and I can't remember the name of it). Ditto in earlier wars - Lincoln's first Secretary of the Army was, per Lincoln, so corrupt that "he'd try to steal a red-hot stove."
Short answer = yes. There were war profiteers in WWII (there's a popular post-WWII play that features one - my Google-fu is weak today and I can't remember the name of it). Ditto in earlier wars - Lincoln's first Secretary of the Army was, per Lincoln, so corrupt that "he'd try to steal a red-hot stove."
That would be "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_My_Sons
First thing I thought of. So common that it was the subject of popular dramatic entertainment. It's capitalism, Jake!
Prescott Bush, a US Senator & father of George H.W., potus 41, was in the thick of WWII profiteering.
IIRC, it was les profiteering than trading with Germany until they couldn't.
It was pre-war profiteering! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Like pre-plague profiteering!
That Lincoln was one funny sumbitch.
There's always scumbags but being so securely in charge is relatively new.