Word: industrialistic
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...broadcasts of Lenten sermons have long been among the most popular on the air, one of his books, Peace of Soul, was a notable bestseller in 1949, and the many conversions over which he has presided have included such well-known people as Columnist Heywood Broun, Communist Louis Budenz, Industrialist Henry Ford II and Author Clare Boothe Luce...
...desire for an orchestra had never died. The problem was to bring the desire and Detroit money together. The man who turned the trick was Industrialist John B. Ford Jr. (no kin to Henry), wartime Navy commander, director of half a dozen Detroit corporations. At first he was reluctant. But at the urging of music-loving Jerome Remick Jr. (whose family once owned Remick Music Corp.), he agreed to "make four phone calls, ask no more than $10,000 from each of the people I call...
Picture on the Wall. Aymé writes about two families, the solid upper-class Lasquins and the bohemian middle-class Ancelots. M. Lasquin, a hard-working industrialist, falls dead at lunch one day, between the trout and the duck with orange sauce. The death is rather ill-timed, for the workers at his factory are restive. Who can take his place there? His son-in-law Pierre is the natural candidate, but Pierre cares nothing for industry and responsibility, or, for that matter, for his pretty young wife, Micheline. Pierre dreams of being a track star, keeps a picture...
Back to the Black. Knowing most Cuban industrialists by their first names, and aware almost to the peso of what they should be paying, Bosch upped income-tax collections from $6 to $25 million, business-profit tax revenues from $20 to $45 million. Members of Carlos Prio's own family paid up back taxes. The President himself told the story of an industrialist who went to the Treasury to try to get off paying $18,000 in profit taxes, wound up paying $120,000, then "went around telling everyone that at last there was a man in Treasury...
...make a mystery of his ivory tower until now? Well, says Marinotti, "an industrialist who paints is apt to be looked on by others as a man who is distracted from his own work. However, once a person can show the work he has accomplished...