Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive inflamed tensions at a time when the city seemed to be making some progress, however small, in race relations. Complained a Birmingham Negro attorney: "The new administration should have been given a chance to confer with the various groups interested in change." A. G. Gaston, a Negro businessman, added: "I regret the absence of continued communication between white and Negro leadership in our city." Said the Rev. Albert S. Foley, a white Jesuit priest who is chairman of Alabama's Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission: "These demonstrations are poorly timed and misdirected." Perhaps the worst...
...patient, a 40-year-old businessman, had rheumatic heart disease. The condition called for one of the most radical and dangerous feats of modern surgery. In an operating room at Manhattan's New York Hospital, a team of surgeons laid the ailing heart bare. While it was being repaired, the patient required transfusion of no fewer than 23 pints of blood. After nearly three weeks, he seemed to be recovering. But then, mysteriously, his temperature shot up to almost 105° F. Tests showed him to be infected by Plasmodium jalciparum, the bug that causes malignant malaria...
Mendoza bought a small building-materials company in 1930, soon after the oil boom burst over the country. As the new riches sparked a spurt of building. Mendoza's company grew to dominate the construction-products market. An enlightened businessman. Mendoza realized that what was good for Venezuela was also good for him. In a brief stint as Minister of Development during World War II, he helped enact the laws that formed the basis for the precedent-shattering 50-50 formula that guaranteed Venezuela at least half the profits of the oil companies doing business in the country...
...British officer commands the Malayan army, five senior British civil servants hold key positions in Malayan government ministries, and British businessmen control more than half of the rubber industry, repatriate $86 million in profits annually. "It's wonderful how this place has flowered since independence." says one businessman. "We're really much better off. Good old Tunku...
...every 2½ miles of track. Historically inefficient, Britain's railways have become even more so since their nationalization in 1948, have lost money each year since 1953 at an increasingly alarming rate. In 1961 the loss was $381 million on revenues of $1.3 billion. As a businessman who believes that even a public service should be able to show a profit, Beeching was appalled by what he found. Fully half of the railways' 17,830 route miles accounted for only 4% of the total passenger traffic and only 5% of the freight; half...