Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful TV technician is likely to be a college-trained mechanical wizard, a businessman and something of a psychologist. He spends his days rushing about to meet the demands of an infantile public that can't face the day without its favorite soap opera or wrestling match...
...Democratic City Chairman William J. Brennan. Lawrence became Allegheny County chairman at 31, discovered that in Republican Pennsylvania the prestige was hollow. When Hyde Park's Franklin Roosevelt rolled into the White House, Democrat Dave Lawrence rolled into statewide power, dragging with him his own candidate for governor, Businessman George H. Earle...
Good Will & Good Sense. Face to face with Westerners over San Francisco's famed food, many a dark-skinned delegate discovered that the capitalist is not the bogeyman pictured by the anti-capitalists (see The Anti-Capitalist Attitude) but a fellow businessman of good will and good sense. Many foreign delegates happily closed deals between conference sessions (see Capital Opportunities...
Pink Hats for Wooing. Among the busiest hustlers were the twelve Burmese delegates, all in their native garb of longyi (skirt) and gaung baung (pink gauze cap). Said U Tin U, private businessman and government mining adviser: "I am here to woo American miners. I want to convince them of the possibilities of exploitation of my country." He pointed out that Burma's government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from...
...melodramatic simplicity that requires no score cards to tell heroes from villains. Such paladins of power and profit as Physicist John Gait, Steelmaker Hank Rearden, Billionaire Francisco d'Anconia all have noble, proudly lifted heads, clear blue (or green) eyes, frank, open expressions. Such blackguards as traitorous Businessman Orren Boyle, Bureaucrat Cuffy Meigs, Parasite Philip Rearden have eyes that are "pale and veiled" or "small black slits" or "blurred brown"; they can never meet anyone's gaze; they have hangdog expressions and poor postures. In fact, the struggle is so unequal that it is a wonder it takes...