Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JOSIAH was more than a crafty businessman. He was the spiritual father of a special British enterprise--one that has survived the gain and loss of an empire. Piers, the portly sould who must continue the family work, is proud. He says, "Josiah was the thirteenth child in the fourth generation of potters. His great grandfather was the first Wedgwood potter. His own father died when he was only nine years old and he was apprenticed to his eldest brother from the age of nine to 21. He happened to be very ill during that period and was not considered...
...preflight research can pay off handsomely. One Los Angeles businessman had expected to pay about $1,500 to buy round-trip tickets to Detroit for his wife and two children. Then he spotted a newspaper ad for Delta's new Los Angeles-to-Toledo service that offers $49 one-way tickets for family members, when one adult pays full fare. By going to Toledo, 60 miles from Detroit, and renting a car to finish the trip, the family saved about...
...Fleming's novel Moonraker, Multimillionaire Hugo Drax built himself a huge rocket to annihilate the city of London. He was foiled in his sinister strategems by James Bond, Agent 007. Now a businessman space buff named Gary Hudson is trying some rather far-out capitalism of his own, with a plan to start putting satellites into orbit from a private launching pad in Texas by 1983. So far, not even the U.S. Government is trying to stop...
...people would be thirsty by the time they had come clear across North Carolina, then dry as two-year-old tobacco. "He wanted to get into the retail beer business, and this (five feet, if that, south of the state line) seemed an advantageous location," Holliday says. "He was businessman enough to adopt the name," and later invented Pedro, the Mexican figure that serves as mascot, Holliday adds. "He never intended it to get this large." "This large" means 500 guests a night at the motel and campgrounds, $20 million a year in receipts, 10-to 15,000 visitors...
...group of conservative economists is trying to make gold again the anchor of the world's monetary system, a position it held during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Says Lewis Lehrman, a wealthy businessman and sometime consultant to the Reagan Administration...