Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year per car; whether they show a profit at all frequently depends on what they can get for their autos on the used-car market after the lease has run out. And just as the individual customer is out of place in car leasing, so is the entrepreneur who hopes to start with a few dozen cars: many auto leasers insist that a newcomer needs at least 500 cars to make a go of the business...
...economic structure that can follow the stemming of a flow of information and advertising that businessmen and their customers usually take for granted. The absence of the newspapers has created an artificial recession that has spread through many areas of economic life, from the big stores to the struggling entrepreneur who usually benefits from his satellite relation to the big advertisers...
...principally to astute Chairman-President Laurent Wolters, 61, a Russian-born Belgian who, in a long Petrofina tradition of clannishness, got his first job at Petrofina through a board member who happened to be his godfather. Wolters took over the wreckage at war's end with a shrewd entrepreneur's eye for opportunity instead of salvage. Since crude oil was cheap and abundant, he ordered Petrofina to forget production, buy its oil from other companies and concentrate on expanding its sales outlets. Petrofina expanded by buying up existing chains (such as British Cities Service), or by starting from...
...treasurer, demonstrated his fund-raising legerdemain by staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934. His potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed: "Fag a bealach!" Rudely reverberating in Tara's halls, it loosely means...
Last March, when the U.S. slapped drastic new quotas on its imports of cotton textiles. Hong Kong's burgeoning textile industry suffered a severe case of the shudders. Among the hardest hit was C.C. (for Chen Che) Lee, 51, the shrewd, Shanghai-born entrepreneur who built Hong Kong's first postwar textile mill. As the Crown Colony's biggest producer of finished cotton garments. Lee had been selling up to a million dollars' worth of garments a month in the U.S. Lee had to do something fast or his profit margin would be wiped...