Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...switchover to peacetime production was farther along in many lines than many a businessman had thought possible...
When returned missionaries told him sad tales about time-wasting, tedious travel through deserts and jungles, Businessman Bob decided to speed up foreign missions with a Missionary Flying School...
Moving steadily along the way to normal times, he abolished the Office of War Information-with a nod of praise to OWI Boss Elmer Davis-and appointed his great & good friend, Washington Businessman George E. Allen, to find ways of lopping off other bureaus and agencies. From Budget Director Harold Smith he got an estimate that the U.S. would spend about one-third less in the 1946 fiscal year than the $100 billions it spent...
Privy O.K. The American invasion has been so successful that the most determined British purist cannot even counterattack without unconsciously employing Americanisms. Most Englishmen would be astonished to learn, for instance, that businessman, governmental, graveyard, law-abiding, lengthy, overcoat and telegram are of U.S. origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained...
...Alger himself made a fortune by the mass production of novels. (Never a shrewd businessman, Alger sold most of his works outright at moderate prices. At the height of his reputation, he had to piece out his literary earnings by tutoring schoolboys in French and Latin. One of his pupils: the future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo...