Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightly budgeted family heads (average salary: $9,000) hoped to break even or turn a small profit by the time their companies assigned them to better jobs in other cities. But their hopes did not take into account the secret plans of Builder Morris Milgram of Philadelphia, a crusading businessman who has built four successful integrated communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey over the past five years. Through an Illinois subsidiary of his Modern Community Developers, Inc., Milgram settled on Deerfield as the ideal site for his next experiment in residential equality. When word of Milgram's plan leaked...
ALMOST every U.S. businessman gives away some samples of his product, but few can match Joyce Clyde Hall, 68, founder and president of Hallmark greeting cards. Some time in the next few days. Hall will choose a Christmas card from this year's Hallmark line and send it to no fewer than 6,000 friends and acquaintances. He can afford it. Over the past 50 years, Hallmark has grown into the goliath of the greeting card business, producing 4,000,000 copies of 11,000 different cards each day for sale through 22,000 retailers in four countries. Hallmark...
...humid, red-roofed Resht, an Iranian city of 120,000 near the shores of the Caspian Sea, death last week had an appointment with Mahmud Faqizadeh, 31. A burly, handsome young man who worked in the Imperial Forestry Service, black-browed Mahmud had quarreled with an eminent Reshtian businessman, brooded over the affair in the company of a bottle of vodka and then, while drunk, sought out the man and shot him to death...
...just take things out of it"). Now Sabba's string of eleven corporations is making tin cans and rubber tapping cups, shotgun shells, kraft paper, oil drums, prefabricated houses, dynamite. He distills essential oils, makes leather products, refines and distributes petroleum. He has set up a businessman committee to attract others to .the frontier...
...silver lips produce pearls instead of buttons came from the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which has the job of promoting new industries. Experiments produced only crude pearls, but showed promise. The man who turned the experiments into profits was Keith Bureau, an Australian businessman and partner in the big Melbourne importing firm of Brown & Bureau. Three years ago he formed a syndicate with a U.S. businessman, an Australian pearler, and asked Japanese Culture Pearl Expert Tokuichi Kuribayashi, president of Tokyo's Nippo Pearl Co. Ltd., to join them in growing pearls...