Word: busied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the auto and appliance busi nesses, the seed business is built on planned obsolescence. Burpee, who has developed hundreds of new varieties of flowers, often names outstanding new ones after celebrities. This calls for some careful catalogue descriptions. He likes to tell of the seedsman who named a flower after his mother, described it as "pure white, big and robust, with a wide, expanded form on stout stems...
...first things he developed was a cheaper and more efficient device to delay electric impulses in TV tape recorders to eliminate picture distortion. Ampex, the biggest producer of recording equipment, had not yet made one, so it handed Steve a big order that put him solidly in busi ness. He leased a plant, hired a few young employees (mostly students) to turn out his products...
Behind the Fed's new and heartening figures lay years of careful work in sharpening its sampling techniques to reflect both the 1954 and 1957 census of busi ness, plus a wealth of fresh new information on what is really going on in the U.S. economy...
...Chinese community to his salesmen. His Asian pool expanded so rapidly that in 1926 Starr returned to New York and created the American International Underwriters Corp. to centralize reporting for his Shanghai companies and to develop insurance in the U.S. on risks abroad. Starr's hard drive for busi ness did not endear him to more genteel competitors. They called him a buccaneer as he snatched their business away, often by offering higher commissions to agents, and larger rebates to those insured if they filed no claims...