Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...base called POW!, combined with corn syrup, confectioners' sugar and just about any flavoring and color imaginable, chew-it-yourselfers can concoct a 25-ft. length of bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that, or use Kool-Aid." He adds with a nervous chuckle: "I've had feedback that the kids are putting grass in it." Most gum kits are sold by mail from...
...Jacobs, is the wife of Financier Louis Wolfson and co-owner of Triple Crown Winner Affirmed. Jacobson got into a variety of troubles, however, and in 1970 New York's State Racing Commission suspended him for five years for fraud, misrepresentation, and mishandling of funds. Jacobson remained an entrepreneur of sorts, though, and he owned the seven-story building where Tupper lived. He rented out apartments to models and stewardesses, keeping a penthouse with swimming pool for himself...
Eight years ago, three newly graduated Harvard Lampoon editors had a wild and crazy idea: Why not start the first modern national humor magazine for American adults? They took the idea to a middle-aged entrepreneur-the publisher of Weight Watchers magazine, no less-and National Lampoon was born. The rest is history, or if not history, then at least hilarity...
...There is a lot of talk that the small businessman cannot make a mark in these days of high prices, costly credit and crushing competition. Maybe the skeptics and fainthearted should motor to California's green-carpeted Napa Valley and speak with Joe Heitz, entrepreneur...
...entrepreneur must recruit a few loyal aides and work them hard. Young oenology graduates clamor to join Heitz because he is demanding, and he has them do everything. To them, he is a combination of Captain Bligh and Father Flanagan. With Heitz working alongside, they perform every operation: run the crushers and the bottling line, even paint the barrel hoops black because Joe wants them to look neat. His philosophy: "If your place looks like you don't care, your employees won't care. And extreme meticulousness is the most important factor in making fine wine." Or almost...