Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Able ex-Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, finally got around last week to the only act which has given him real pleasure as Price Boss. He resigned. His successor: OPA's lantern-jawed No. 2 man, Businessman Chester Bowles, who has been running OPA smoothly and with a free hand since July...
...years, the Federal Reserve Board's index has been the authoritative barometer of U.S. industrial production. In peacetime, many a U.S. businessman eagerly scanned the index's monthly rise-or fall-shifted his financial position accordingly. Many a financial house bases its carefully computed private index on that of FRB. Last week, FRB admitted, with tremendous dignity, that for two years its index has been inaccurate...
...Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While news flashes mistakenly identified the dead man as Ernesto, radio stations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina went off the air for periods of silence in his honor...
...Chicago's famed Tam O'Shanter Golf Club, he claims, mainly to stage razzle-dazzle tournaments like his All-American Open tournament there last summer. May picked up yards of publicity and the firm belief that most U.S. businessmen are golf-minded. So May feels that any businessman who might escape the mail-order barrage is still within an easy chip shot of his new foundation...
When Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser took over management of bogged-down Brewster Aeronautical Corp. last March (TIME, March 29), many a U.S. businessman, weary of the Kaiser legend, could hardly wait for him to fall on his face. Last week they smirked with anticipation. Evidence piled up that Brewster, which has knocked out four managements in two years, was softening the miracle man for the kill...