Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a Heavy Foot. At 52, Eddie Rickenbacker (ne Richenbacher) had, almost better than any other American, spanned the gap from youthful hero to solid citizen, from daring combat flyer to successful businessman. Young Eddie went to work at twelve in Columbus, Ohio: glass works, brewery, steel mill, monument works, shoe factory, bicycle shop. The shop was also an automobile garage. Eddie learned to drive, moved on to an auto factory, studied engineering via the International Correspondence School. It was speed that interested him. At 20, known on all racing tracks as a man "with a heavy foot," he cleaned...
...only U.S. woman flyer (she only made Bucharest). Today she is not quite 34, and the acknowledged No. 1 feminine flyer of the U.S., the successful manager of a cosmetic business and a model orphanage, the mistress of four country and city homes, the wife of Big Businessman Floyd Odium...
...South America-bound freighter La Paz, 40 miles off the Florida coast. Last week the 10,000-ton La Paz was tied up in Jacksonville waiting for repairs that would send her back to war. It was all thanks to William Radford Lovett, a 51-year-old Jacksonville businessman who now says he wishes he had minded his own business in the first place-despite the fact that both he and the war effort will be the richer for his meddling...
...typical ham is "my friend Larry Olivier. He is sincere and has a conviction that what he is doing has great importance." Typical glamor actress is Norma Shearer ("glamor attracts the star who no longer needs the money but doesn't want to retire just yet"). Typical businessman: George Sanders, who drifted into films for the fat pay checks, may just as coolly drift out of them again...
...only some $7,000,000 for its proteges, has approved only two loans totaling $65,000. A major explanation of this picayune record may be the all-too-characteristic fact that, although the corporation was authorized by law in June, it did not get a head (Kansas City Little Businessman Lou Holland) until July, a headquarters (the Raleigh Hotel) until August, or an administrative order permitting it to employ a staff until September. Nonetheless the same trade sources that claim that 45,000 small manufacturers are fully equipped to handle war contracts they cannot land, also believe that not more...