Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Italy, schemes were being made to cash in on the first Holy Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
Last week, at 70, Juan March (rhymes with park) staged one of the most audacious strokes of his audacious career. He snatched Spain's biggest public utility, the $250 million Ebro Irrigation & Power Co., Ltd., away from an international electrical combine run by a U.S. businessman and partly financed by U.S. and British investors...
diocese. Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara began by poking so many irons into the fire (and looking to his flock to keep the blaze going) that when one prosperous Catholic businessman was asked whether he had been around to see the new bishop he replied: "I'd like to, but I can't. I can't afford it." Last week, in the big ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, 155 members of Bishop O'Hara's clergy gathered to cele brate his tenth anniversary in the diocese...
...Seattle. The Aeronautical Mechanics Union Local 751 (which struck Boeing last year) was in the midst of a $25,000 advertising campaign; one ad sarcastically suggested that the Grand Coulee Dam, the Bremerton Navy Yard and the Hanford Atomic Works be moved to the Midwest too. Cried one Seattle businessman: "He just tossed us a fish. He's trying to give us a sleeping pill...
While the Federal Trade Commission was serving up the facts on big business (see above), a Cleveland businessman last week provided a pamphlet case history on why his Allied Oil Co. was swallowed up by a bigger company...