Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none has been more dramatic than the increase for leisure. Of personal loans in New York City banks this summer, 21% are being taken out for travel; on the West Coast, tourists to the Orient have doubled in two years. Across the U.S. the housewife ranks second after the businessman as a passport applicant. Those who stay home spend on second homes, pleasure boats and swimming pools; in California 3% of all boat owners earn less than $5,000. In addition, 25% of all families now own two cars-and the latest trend is to a third. 'There...
Imperial Potentate Omar Carlyle Brock, 64, an Erie, Pa., businessman and 43-year member of the Masons, took the fearsome honor with due solemnity. He is a zealous worker in the Shrine's child-welfare program, which has built and maintains 17 children's hospitals and has just raised $10,000,000 to build and staff three specialized institutions for the treatment of burns (the most common of childhood's accidents) in Galveston, Boston, and Cincinnati. He succeeds to an office once held by Actor Harold Lloyd, assumes leadership of more than three-quarters of a million...
...Goldwaterites, the bulk of the 39 million Americans who failed to vote in 1960 were not lower income citizens who would be Democratically inclined. Instead, they were conservatives who considered both candidates too liberal. "We've never been offered a real choice in my lifetime," said Arlington, Va., Businessman Marvin Toombs, 43. "This...
...back, not far from Melbourne. He moved up to a pushcart, then to a rented store, and by 1911 had amassed enough money to buy a small general store in Melbourne-right on the present site of Myer's. He quickly became the city's most successful businessman, outraging competitors by such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers, ordering his salesgirls to don hats and crowd around neglected bargain counters. Before he died in 1934, he had begun establishing branch stores in other Australian cities and had foresightedly picked his successor: Myer's current...
Noisy Protest. London's Daily Express claimed that Operation Sandpaper had been masterminded by "a retired army officer, now a Midlands businessman," and said the team that had tied up Dagenham's betting windows numbered 170 men. The coup had taken three months to prepare, and the bankroll was ?6,000 ($16,800)-"?4,000 for betting, ?2,000 for expenses...