Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From that time on Crazy Jack began to visit law courts. He was not worried by litigation. In fact he often fell asleep on the benches in courtrooms. A rival oilman had his first lease cancelled in court and Crazy Jack declared incompetent. A local businessman was appointed his guardian. Soon his farm was producing 12,000 bbl. of oil a day and his income had reached $60,000 a month...
...Hippodamla convergens means so many ladybird beetles-small, black-stippled yellow inhabitants of California's high Sierras, fond of eating the eggs of the vegetable aphis (louse) which is a scourge of most truck farmers. To Robert Bogue, who is both an entomologist and a businessman, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens last week meant the biggest order yet received for his chief stock-in-trade...
...motors in a 40,000-sq.-ft. factory in Los Angeles. He started in a small laboratory 15 years ago when Tommy Milton, whose cars he had "doctored," commissioned him to build one. He dislikes plotting engine areas, explains his ideas to subordinates who put them on paper. No businessman, he has sold enough patents, like those for the front-wheel drive under which Cord operates, to make him several fortunes. Yet he is perpetually in financial straits, once refusing to discuss a deal which might have made him rich because the manufacturer "talked engines like a durn fool...
...John Businessman inventories mean one thing only-unsold goods. When production outstrips consumption, inventories pile in warehouse and on shelf, and sales-managers grow obstreperous. When inventories pile as high as they did in 1929 a depression follows. When they pile as high as they did last summer a "recession" is the aftermath. There are innumerable theories (generally monetary or social) to explain why buyers rarely outnumber sellers but few economists dare ignore the storm warnings of mounting stocks. By last week it was clear that ever since April 1 inventories have been accumulating at a more alarming rate than...
Author Stribling writes so simply that he seems guileless. His own cryptic opinions are buried deep in the characters of his people. Only occasionally does he let his irony be seen: a cynical businessman defines the decision of a jury as "just an idle opinion expressed by twelve negligible onlookers"; when a bankrupt unsuccessfully pleads that the bank should not strip him to the buff, "the Colonel was amazed that anyone should compare the most conventional of American businesses with a gambling house...