Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They are: ¶James Wright Hunt's $1,000,000 trust, set up in 1949 at the death of the shy Quaker attorney and amateur bird watcher whose fortune began when land he accepted as a legal fee later turned out to hold rich iron-ore deposits. ¶Businessman (real estate, mining, investments) Marshall W. Alworth's $1,000,000 memorial to his parents, limited to students majoring in mathematics, engineering, the physical sciences, and medicine, which has aided a total of 270 students in twelve years, including some whose grants saw them through eight years of schooling...
Despite assurances from the economists that a new boom is coming, many a U.S. businessman last week could not conquer an uneasy hunch that for a while yet U.S. prosperity would be a kind of austere affluence. In a panel discussion of the business outlook sponsored by the First National Bank of Chicago, President Ralph Lazarus of Federated Department Stores predicted that steadily rising personal income would continue to improve retail sales, but added: "We foresee substantial growth, but not a sharp, runaway boom." President Robert S. Ingersoll of Borg-Warner Corp. looked for only a "gradual and minimal" upturn...
...show weakness in Berlin, said Miami Hotel Executive Carl H. Ransom Jr., is only "to give way to something that eventually will eat you up. You lose a little here and a little there, and you wake up and you're lost." Said Wilkie Hanson, a New Jersey businessman: "If we get out of one place we'll have to fight them somewhere else." Said Chicago Cost Accountant Ray Nowacki: "We'll stand up on our hind legs in Berlin." Said Bob Maxwell, who conducts a Detroit radio poll: "People think we've been backing...
...best story in this large collection is very good indeed. An Easy One tells of a boy and his mother traveling in a train. The boy is bright, and prattles loudly the names of the states and their capitals; the mother is slightly cheap and not interested. A businessman moves in and buys the mother a drink. The boy fights back by sulking. The man counters by asking him another state capital. The boy says he does not know, and is silent when his mother, quite gay now, urges him to recite. He glares at her, and petulantly she asks...
Eager to see and experience the world he lives in, Barry Goldwater is almost too versatile to be true; a businessman, politician, jet pilot, folklorist, explorer, photographer and athlete, he is as modern as tomorrow. Yet at the same time, there is in both the individualist Goldwater message and the self-reliant Goldwater manner an echo of the Old West. Appropriately, the man himself is heir to the spirit of a pioneering family in a state barely one generation removed from the frontier...