Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of committing it to paper, however, was considerably helped by the insistence of Joseph Purtell, Senior Editor for Business & Finance, that everyone concerned with it-from researchers to correspondents in the field-keep his facts at hand and the review in mind throughout the year. Pertinent oddities like Businessman Baxter's hymn to his country, to Texas and to Dallas were also stored away; TIME'S editors and the members of its business departments made their contributions. One of them was a firsthand account of the significant business expansion going on in the Chicago area...
...governor General Sir Brian Robertson slapped them down: "Stop complaining. Be thankful for what you have got. The Germans must understand that Germany's record has caused other countries to be nervous about her behavior in the future." The sanest German opinion was well expressed by a Berlin businessman: "Of course the politicians must cry out in anger-that is part of their professional duty. But we need a year before we can really tell how this will work...
Like any good businessman or golf pro, Ben Hogan loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...
...Truman groping through the tumbling squalls of the postwar economy, often seeming to dismiss his problems as jauntily as the captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina, we call him mule head...
This week the Old Vic's governors were to announce the appointment of a single administrator, Walter Llewellyn Rees, a shrewd businessman who is drama director of the government's Arts Council. To handle the artistic end, they will name 35-year-old Hugh Hunt, an alumnus of Broadway and Dublin's Abbey Theater, who has directed Bristol's successful offshoot Old Vic since...