Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Browder star was shining even brighter. Off to Russia to join Fallen Angel Browder was his most ardent disciple, a shy, little-known, well-heeled U.S. businessman named Abraham A. Heller, who was also the longtime financial angel of U.S. radicals...
...Marseilles businessman, Emille Bouche, sprayed a 20-acre orchard infested with cockchafers, killed them all in 21 minutes. Honey bees (normally vulnerable to DDT) seemed undamaged. To find out whether Activated DDT was toxic to animals, Bouche fed 400 hens for two weeks on an exclusive diet of poisoned cockchafers. The hens thrived. Bouche, much impressed, promptly invested his all in building seven French factories for manufacturing Activated...
...teeth in almost every section. He fought hard against others that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper] coming to the rescue of the American businessman and the Senator from Colorado [conservative Republican Eugene Donald Millikin] coming to the rescue of the American workingman is something wonderful to behold...
...Shanghai today and transcends racial and national lines; the faith that prompts long-term investments is lacking. An American dentist, who came to practice in Shanghai, sold his dental equipment for more profit than he could make in a few years of practice, and went home. A foreign businessman who bought a house for 13,000 U.S. dollars last fall sold it recently for 136,000 and has gone home to retire. The first 1946 Chrysler sedan to arrive in Shanghai was sold by an ethically intentioned American dealer for $3,000, a comfortable profit. He is now feeling like...
There were more subtle ways of convincing dissenters. Crump policemen once trailed funeral processions of a recalcitrant undertaker, traffic slips ready. In 1940, they stood outside the door of a Memphis druggist who made the mistake of supporting Willkie, and searched all his customers for "narcotics." Or a businessman could have his assessments raised...