Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verse of Poet Archibald MacLeish and the theatrical verve of Director Elia Kazan, a businessman's Job comes excitingly alive...
...Building, he usually takes along an RCA executive for a back-seat conference in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac. Visiting the U.S. exhibit in Moscow, Burns was Johnny on the spot during the Khrushchev-Nixon debate. He quietly slipped an exclusive TV tape to a departing U.S. businessman, who flew it out to give U.S. audiences an uncensored look...
Tipped off by the Dum Dum arrests and by Hong Kong police, who discovered the names of BOAC employees among the records of a suspect Hong Kong "businessman," BOAC moved in its security chief, a former Scotland Yard detective named Donald ("Flying") Fish. He discovered that some crew members carried jewels, jade, but chiefly easily disposable gold, netted $600 to $700 a trip. Fish spent six weeks investigating, interviewing scores of BOAC staffers, often surprising them at such odd points along their routes as BOAC rest rooms, even (with permission) examining employee bank balances. Last week BOAC announced that...
...Berlin has also invested in new properties whenever the risk looked good. Hearst's stable of 13 magazines, one of the relatively few consistent moneymakers in the empire, has grown by the addition of Sports Afield (1953) and Popular Mechanics (1958). With Avon (117 new titles last year), Businessman Berlin picked up a growing firm in a growing field...
Died. Carle Cotter Conway, 81, dynamic, debonair chairman (1930-50) of Continental Can, who in his long (1912-58) career broadened the use of can containers, steadily increased the number of his plants, boosted sales from $70 million in 1933 to $398 million in 1950, as a liberal-minded businessman headed and whipped into action the nine-man committee appointed to reorganize the Stock Exchange, saw his own recommendations embodied in the Exchange of today; in Lake Placid...