Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Economic Czar Miguel Miranda last week: "The future of Argentina, as I see it, is very brilliant, because our products are bound to give us all we need." At such talk many an Argentine businessman winced. All around were signs that the economy of the country was sick and getting sicker week by week...
...born in Stockton, Calif, in 1894. His father, a Tennessee-born carpet cleaner named Lemuel Beck, brought his family to Seattle four years later, seeking a handhold on the better life. Lemuel Beck never found it. As his growing son soon discovered, he was the "world's worst businessman...
Maldarelli looks like a chunky businessman, mild and bespectacled. The respectful attention he gets from art critics seems to mean less to him than the affection of his students, who call him "Mai." Wearing a hat made of newspaper to keep the chips out of his hair, he lets them look on while he carves, knocks off now & then to serve tea. "When I get bored with myself I go and see what the students are up to. I don't dictate, and I don't make them work too much from the model. The important thing...
...clarify the Act's many generalities and perplexing statements, he became a constant interrogator at EGA and related government bureaus and at the foreign embassies. In the end, his careful, detailed study became a voluminous report on what the European Recovery Program means to the U.S. businessman (unlike Lend-Lease, etc. it is to be conducted largely through normal business channels), and how he can participate...
...present, TLI is considering a third edition of How To Do Business Under the Marshall Plan early next year to incorporate probable changes in the Act's regulations and to satisfy the great number of requests for extra copies. These requests alone are impressive evidence of the U.S. businessman's intention to give the Marshall Plan the kind of understanding and cooperation that can make it succeed...