Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Money. Many a consumer who sets out to buy a house or TV set and many a businessman who embarks on plant expansion or modernization is discovering that it is harder to get the money he needs to do it-and the money costs him more. As the economy boomed, the supply of money over the past few months has got steadily tighter. For how and why this happened, and what it means to the economy, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Tighter Money...
...with his secretary, the wife of a Cabazon cop. Says Tallent, still up for trial on a misdemeanor charge: "I will definitely ask for a jury. I don't think you'd find one man in twelve who'd find anything wrong with a businessman occupying the same room with his secretary...
...adept as Grassi was at getting money, he was even better at losing it. Last month, in one three-day spree in Monte Carlo, he dropped $490,000. A few days later, at Le Touquet, he lost heavily again, this time ironically playing beside an American businessman on vacation-Ralph Thomas Reed, president of American Express Co. Reed was not the only one who wondered at the recklessness of the mysteriously affluent Italian. A Parisian gossip columnist wrote an item about "a young Italian, Mr. Grassi, who never bets less than one million francs at a time at roulette...
...businessman (Panama hats) named Eloy Alfaro came to power, began a half century of Liberal Party control, marked by anticlericalism, e.g., confiscation of huge church estates, enactment of some of South America's first divorce laws. He built the buckety Quito-Guayaquil railroad. Then in 1912, Eloy Alfaro overreached for a third term, and the army handed him over to the fickle mob, which tore him limb from limb...
...Variations. The key to National's success is Price's head-on approach to both his problems and those of the U.S. homeowner. A creative, hard-driving businessman, Price has transformed the prefab from a poor cousin into a respectable member of the housing family. To rid the prefab of the boxy, cheap look and boring sameness that once plagued it, he has hired top architects to give his houses style, turns out four basic models in 600 different variations ranging from a three-bedroom $7.900 home to a $150,000 custom-built one. Price also has another...