Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cowboys by flashing $1,000 bills. He staked the town's bowling team to a trip to a Detroit tournament. He bought a duck hunters' show place in Arkansas, dropped $85,000 in a Wyoming land deal, plunged in Illinois oil, imported Hollywood cuties for a Cheyenne businessman's party...
Through a Loophole. Crosby, no mean businessman himself, became a director of Vacuum Foods, in which he recently bought 20,000 shares of stock at lof a share. He has agreed, at an undisclosed salary, to plug the juice on a transcribed song & chatter program five days a week. (Philco Corp., which has Crosby under exclusive contract, has agreed to let him be Minute Maid's man for a daily kind word for Philco products...
...afternoon, Evita met Noticias Publisher José Agusti, asked him bluntly if it was true that he had had offers for his paper. Shrewd businessman Agusti, onetime bitter enemy of the Peróns, replied that he had, but that he had not taken them very seriously. Eva persisted: "How much would you take, to allow you a profit?" Agusti named the fat figure of 6,000,000 pesos ($1,254,600). "As of right now," said Evita, "Noticias is mine...
Thirteen conspirators, it was soon announced, had been rounded up. Also accused as a plotter was 50-year-old John F. Griffiths, businessman, ex-college instructor (University of Southern California), and onetime cultural attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, the state-owned radio called for a one-day general strike of protest...
...practically everybody had heard about the Great Books, but hardly anybody seemed to be reading them. Only 167 adults had signed up for the study groups started by the University of Chicago. Then in 1947 Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins invited Businessman Lynn A. Williams Jr. to try selling culture to the public as he had sold radios and auto parts (TIME, June 16, 1947). Last week President Williams reported that his non-profit Great Books Foundation had signed up 50,000 customers in 300 cities...