Word: altruistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand for the ceremony was the Southern-born woman who planned the project, robust, warm-hearted Mrs. Velma Grant. In only three years, she had built and sold $3,500,000 worth of new houses to Negroes in Los Angeles. No altruist, Mrs. Grant had made a profit of more than...
Young (42), handsome "Stu" Symington is no airy altruist. The $898,700 net income his company reported last fortnight (for the year ended Sept. 30) was a picayune residue of the company's swollen gross sales of $83,207,000-but it was much more than Emerson had ever made in any of its 53 years (Symington took over its management in 1938). And Manufacturer Symington was still being sturdily realistic when he declared: "To us one of the great dangers to our system ... is the picture of some people trying to build their companies from scratch...