Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where all orders meet (the others are run by particular orders), and the only one subsidized by an annual hat-passing in every U.S. diocese (1947 take: more than $800,000). The' Pope authorized this collection in 1910 after a C.U. treasurer, a good Catholic but a bad businessman, jeopardized the university's credit in bad investments...
...Sales and earnings for the second quarter," crowed Johns-Manville Corp.'s Board Chairman Lewis H. Brown, "were the largest for any quarter in the company's history." He did not crow alone. In the spate of second-quarter reports that came out last week, many another businessman sang the same happy tune...
...slight, earnest 26-year-old. A Methodist preacher, he wears a clerical collar, partly because he considers himself a "high" Methodist, partly as a badge of authority which his boys respect. He inherited Landhaven's 60 acres in Maine from his father, a wealthy farmer and businessman in Coin, Iowa. Young Millen had planned a school built to his own specifications ever since his own unsatisfying prep-school days. After Harvard ('42), he got three other well-to-do Harvard-men so fired with his ideas that they agreed to take jobs as masters-at no salary...
...trade discounts. Unconvinced that this had any relation to real savings in Morton's costs, FTC had charged that the discounts were unfair to smaller buyers. The Supreme Court in effect had ordered Morton Salt to stick to a uniform price list for big & small alike. Reasoned one businessman: "If everyone does stick to his price list and the price lists gravitate to a common level, as they will be compelled to do under the economic law of uniform price, then, according to the Supreme Court, the sellers can be found guilty of collusion." If he breaks from...
...Exupery (missing in action, 1944) feels "so weary of controversy, of the opinionated, of fanaticism" that only one small ray of comfort remains in his heart-a memory of times when he exchanged smiles with people. In A Man and a Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid and blandly describes 1) how reasonable it is these...