Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these rollicking journeys lay a new, American style of community, guided by a new, American breed of businessman, the booster, who promoted construction of railroads, saw to the piping of water, digging of sewers, building of schools, laying out of sidewalks, streets and parks. Boosters also founded the pioneer newspapers, in many cases little more than advertising broadsides and forums for the communal chauvinists...
Making railroads pay has long been one of the toughest challenges a U.S. businessman can face. Last week two executives who have been uncommonly successful in meeting that challenge moved on to new and bigger jobs. Louis W. Menk, 47, will leave the $100,000-a-year presidency and board chairman ship of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. to take over as president and chief executive of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., succeeding Harry C. Murphy, who is retiring at 73. Jack E. Gilliland, 56, who has been a vice president of the Frisco since 1958, will...
...offices as protection against bomb blast, shopkeepers pasted strips of paper to window panes, husbands and fathers dug slit trenches outside their homes. As hospitals were hurriedly emptied to provide beds for expected wounded, Indians queued up to donate blood. The capital's mood was reflected by a businessman who said, "We've been kicked around too often. Let us lose 200 million people if we have to, and have done with it. Our national honor is at stake...
...Africa's new businessmen are not only university-trained and experienced but surprisingly sophisticated in trade and finance. In Equatorial Africa, it is no longer unusual to see a $200,000 letter of credit emerging from the folds of a native robe. Nowhere is the new African businessman doing better than in Nigeria, black Africa's most populous and most prosperous nation. With a population of 55 million and an economy that grows 4% each year, the number of Nigerian millionaires is growing almost as fast as the country itself...
Black-haired Marcello was an amiable Roman ragazzo: Forrest was a young American businessman who had recently separated from his wife, stayed on in Rome to forget. The story of their homosexual relationship forms the basis-but only the basis-for this perceptive, unsensational novel. For Marcello, son of a domineering manufacturer, the affair begins casually as one among many he has already enjoyed. He is unemotionally pleased by the physical pleasure and equally delighted to pick up some extra cash to spend on his girl. But for Forrest the affair is unique: what begins as a distraction becomes...