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The profiteer: When Billy starts shooting them at dawn [illustration, 30 August 1919]

12 August 2022 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This illustration was published in Smith’s Weekly (Sydney, NSW), 30 August 1919.]

The profiteer.

When Billy starts shooting them at dawn.

The profiteer (Smith’s Weekly, 30 August 1919)
The profiteer (Smith’s Weekly, 30 August 1919)




Source:
Smith’s Weekly (Sydney, NSW), 30 August 1919, p. 1

Editor’s notes:
In this illustration a profiteer, looking through his window, can see Prime Minister Billy Hughes marching with a column of Australian soldiers behind him.

Billy = William Morris (Billy) Hughes (1862-1952), one of Australia’s longest-serving federal parliamentarians (1901-1952); he was Prime Minister of Australia 1915-1923, which included the First World War (1914-1918); he was born in 1862 in Pimlico (London, England), migrated to Australia in 1884, and died in Lindfield (Sydney, NSW) in 1952
See: 1) L. F. Fitzhardinge, “Hughes, William Morris (Billy) (1862–1952)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography
2) “Billy Hughes”, Wikipedia

profiteer = (in the context or wartime) a war profiteer, someone who makes excessive, unfair, or unreasonable profits at the expense of the community or the nation, by taking advantage of a wartime situation (especially when certain goods are in short supply); often referring to 1) someone who increases prices due to the wartime scarcity of goods, such as when the seller has a monopoly or is a rare, limited, or essential supplier, 2) a seller of armaments and/or equipment for military purposes, who makes high profits, and 3) someone who makes high profits by selling goods on the black market (such as during a time of government-enforced rationing, when the amount of certain goods people can buy is limited by official decree)

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