Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprises. Retired Republic Corp. Chairman Victor M. Carter pronounced himself "happy and satisfied" with a personal $2 million investment in Israel, then produced plans for $30 million worth of new projects involving Itek and other U.S. companies. Such was the entrepreneurial zeal that, during one committee session, a Manhattan businessman jumped to his feet to cry: "I want to buy 100,000 pairs of women's hose here. Who will sell them...
...tells me that the building trade in his city has been hit hard by the outcome of the June war. No construction work goes on, because nobody feels sure about the future. There is a general regression in trade; one of the problems is that the Arab businessman can no longer import freely from Amman. He is compelled to buy Israeli products at a much higher wholesale price. Therefore prices are up and sales are down...
Mayor Kan'an emphasizes towards the end of our conversation that he feels no personal hatred towards the Jews of Israel. Another inhabitant of Nablus, a prominent businessman, assures me that the Jordanians had always been brought up to hate the Jews. As a result of the war, he finds a general change of opinion about Israel and the Israelis among the people of Nablus. "We knew nothing about Israel before and know everything now," he says. He himself has been to Tel Aviv, Yaffo, Natanya and Haifa and finds the cities "nice." He calls Israel a really European country...
...BORN in a small Catholic town in Italy. A town where everybody knew everybody else, 7000 people. My mother came from a well-to-do land-owning family, large, patriarchal. My grandfather had 24 people in his household at one time. My father's family was more in the businessman's style, small merchants. In Italy, my father had a sort of little business, leasing forests for wood to use for lumber and coal. But then the coal industry got bad 'cause of gas being used. So his business went dead. Instead of starting another business he came...
Later, his imitative successors managed to make even sensualism a fraud. Contrary to legend, Louis XV's notorious Deer Park, explains De Gramont, was devoted to rather small-scale lechery-"more of a tired businessman's retreat than a royal orgy-house." Worse, Madame de Pompadour was, by Louis' testimony, cold as a coot, though she plied herself with aphrodisiacs of hot chocolate laced with vanilla, truffles and celery soup. She spent most of her energies keeping official appointments and answering as many as 60 letters a day. Her rewards were the unglamorous ailments of the busy...