Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Businessman Santa Claus had both good & bad news in his reports to small-fry customers last week. Now at the peak of its pre-Christmas hustle, the toy industry is shipping a greater variety of playthings than it has turned out since 1941. On retail toy shelves there is many an eye-catching new number, and rubber and metal toys not seen in any quantity in five years. The bad news is that prices are higher (about 10%) and the supply of some items, such as electric trains and dolls, is far short of demand. (One big store estimated that...
...French zone is the" smallest and worst run of the four. "The French have cut more wood in two years than the Germans cut in 50," said a German forester. A businessman in Coblenz told me: "The French had a wonderful opportunity here. We had had our noses full of Hitler. They wanted the Rhineland, and we wanted something different from what we had. They could have won us. But their tactics have lost us completely...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's wife, Nola, who divorced him last fortnight, got a license in Manhattan to marry Businessman Anthony Arthur Williams...
Three additional winners of scholarships under the bequest of Charles H. Smith, Providence, R.I., businessman, were announced by the University yesterday, joining the eight recipients made public last July...
Last week the new U.S. Ambassador, Stanton Griffis, a former businessman and captain on the U.S. General Staff during the World War I, decided to try undiplomatic tactics. In an upper room of the Embassy, he installed two short-wave radios, set them at different wavelengths to insure round-the-clock squawking. He was simply testing, he explained, the effect of varying weather conditions. The squatters have admitted that the static is getting on their nerves, especially when two squalling babies provide an infantile obbligato...