Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more prayed than went to church. For thousands it was a time to pray silently, at their work or at home. Said an Indianapolis housewife: "I didn't go to church because I had a sick child. I prayed, however; I prayed earnestly." Said a West Acton, Mass, businessman: "I don't pray very often, but I did today...
...civic committee, picked by San Francisco's businessman mayor-golfing, gregarious Roger Lapham-would introduce delegates to the city's social life at a reception, take them to museums, find them seats for symphony concerts and baseball games...
...first of these cover stories was printed way back in our thirteenth issue, for TIME was not among the many who believed his tragic attack of infantile paralysis had cut short his career. He was Businessman Roosevelt then, head of the American Construction Council, which had just sponsored a plan for curtailing credit and deferring new construction to curb runaway building costs. Recalling how " 'See young Roosevelt about it had once been a byword in Washington," TIME called him "a leading citizen ever since he took office as President of the Harvard Crimson...
Then a Flood. Underlying all the haste in reconversion planning last week was a strong suspicion: the cutbacks, when they come, may be greater than now scheduled. Many a businessman was certain that the armed forces had overestimated the demands, enormous though they may be, of the Pacific...
...Braniff searched the air transport industry for good men, sent his gangling Braniff Airways north to tap the rich traffic at Kansas City, Chicago and Denver. A businessman with a hawk eye for facts & figures, Braniff watched his operating costs, held losses at a minimum...