Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madame Garnett's gangling young son, who had been playing in some uncut shrubbery during the show, joined his parents inside after it was over. Her husband, an Italian businessman, poured Mumm's champagne in honor of the occasion. The guests filed out happy and admiring. Gushed a fluttery, middle-aged American guest: "It is very difficult to get materials, you know. To do a show under these conditions deserves-" Stifled by emotion, she applauded lightly with gloved hands...
...down to its monthly luncheon. Guest of honor: Viscount Templewood, the suave old Sir Samuel Hoare of Baldwin-Chamberlain diplomacy, visiting Argentina in the cause of British commerce. Also present: half the Argentine Cabinet. As the savory was cleared away and the Viscount rose to speak, an unidentified British businessman leaped from his place and yelled: "Now you can talk to these people as they should be talked...
...tight-lipped businessman named Albert Houston from Chatham, Ont. had tramped from farm to farm buying used tractors. When he had 69, he slapped on some fresh paint, took them to Yorkton, Sask. In newspapers and on telephone-pole posters he advertised a "Mammoth Auction Sale of Farm Machinery." Not until the day before the auction did Yorkton's 5,577 people know what they were in for. Some 10,000 tractor-hungry farmers, their pockets bulging with cash, arrived from all over the prairies. When all the rooms in Yorkton's three hotels were snapped up, empty...
Last week 71-year-old Fritz Kreisler sold his Strad for less than its assessed value of $80,000. The buyer was a onetime child prodigy named Dorotha Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30. Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary...
...BUSINESSMAN WISHING TO USE A NAZI PROCESS SHOULD OF COURSE MAKE THE CUSTOMARY PATENT SEARCH. IF THERE IS NO U.S. PATENT THERE IS NO PROBLEM. IF THERE IS A U.S. PATENT TAKEN OUT BY AN ENEMY ALIEN, PATENT RIGHTS WILL BE CONTROLLED BY THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN...