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Word: businessman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congratulate you in making so few mistakes. Your CINEMA reporter puts his own ending on Captain Salvation however, this week [TIME, July 11] I heartily favor the revision of the Calendar as suggested June 27 and in, a letter this week. It is about time the modern businessman broke away from the thralldom of medieval ecclesiasticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Happily for dairymen, a professor and a businessman each gave advice last week on how to make money out of cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cheese | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Married. Renee Adoree, famed cinemactress (The Big Parade), to one Sherman Gill, Los Angeles businessman; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ireland on the Make | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...went to the Royal Institute at Milan to study to be an engineer and "an expert businessman." One day, he heard that a Frenchman, Leon Delagrange, had made a six-minute airplane flight.* His dreams suddenly took shape-he would build ships of the air; he would learn to sail them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Passenger Airlines | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

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