Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William Rand Kenan Jr., 93, Florida industrialist, who, as a chemistry student in 1892, stumbled upon a "dark crystalline mass" that later became the keystone of the billion dollar carbide industry, in 1900 turned to Florida hotel and rail development with his brother-in-law, Entrepreneur Henry Flagler, accumulating a personal fortune of $100 million; of a stroke; in Lockport...
Munching, crunching and chewing away, through love scenes, naval battles and death on the barroom floor-that is the way California Entrepreneur Eugene Victor Klein likes to see his customers behave. Klein, 44, is chairman, president (salary: $156,000 a year) and chief stockholder of National General Corp., the second largest U.S theater chain.* By catering to and encouraging the moviegoers' need to nibble on popcorn, candy and anything else he can sell them in his 220 theaters, Klein in four years has brought National General from a $6,700,000 loss to a $3,030,000 profit...
...housing is normally concentrated, the decline is much sharper because of earlier overbuilding, cutbacks in defense industries and a slight slowdown in the influx of new families. More than 50,000 completed houses remain unsold in California, according to Bank of America officials. Says Los Angeles Entrepreneur Jerome Snyder: "Builders in trouble here seem to be more the rule than the exception...
Residential & Recreational. Situated on 6,800 acres of rolling fox-hunting country, 18 miles west of Washington and four miles from the new Dulles Airport, Reston is the brainchild of New York Entrepreneur Robert E. Simon Jr. By its projected completion in 1980, it will house 75,000 people in seven villages, have over 1,600 acres of recreational areas, including two 18-hole and three nine-hole golf courses, a natural and an artificial lake, and a horse stable (the nearest village will have hitching posts in front of its stores), plus a plethora of community-owned pools, tennis...
...what he loves to do, thumbing his nose at the government, yet making a nice living, beholden to no one, feeling quite subversive and generally all optimistic smiles--smiles for himself and for man's future on this planet. He loves to call himself the only capitalist entrepreneur left in the news business...