Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suppose a telephone rings in an empty office. How can the businessman know who has been calling him during his absence...
...Lear Black* famed as the U. S. businessman who has taxied by air the largest number of miles, last fortnight gave up temporarily his most extensive taxi-tour. With one valet, two Dutch pilots and a sturdy triple-engined Fokker Jupiter plane, he set out a month ago to tour the world. No Jules Verne hero, he intended to break no record of speed, altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter...
...invasion of the Rochester newspaper field dates from 1918, when he merged the Evening Times with the Union and Advertiser. Good businessman, practical publisher, he has managed his property well. The new Times-Union prospered, raised advertising rates. A dozen department stores, angered by a new high schedule, recently decided to boycott Gannett, refused their advertising. A short deadlock, and business and the press reached a compromise. Gannett and Rochester realized their need of each other. Even as he announced the purchase of the Democrat and Chronicle, the Times-Union was opening a $1,500,000 plant...
Born. To President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, a granddaughter; the first child of his third daughter Ernestina, and Thomas Arnold Robinson, Manhattan Businessman...
Last year Author Oppenheim passed his literary centennial, and still his pen flows pleasantly on, delighting tired doctor, lawyer, merchant, businessman. Though his 103 plots bear a family resemblance, they are often distinguished, as here, by novel features of mystery and intrigue...