Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fishermen, campers, water skiers and motorboat racers. It was the lake that caught the fancy of McCulloch Oil President Robert Paxton McCulloch, now 56, when he first flew over it in 1958. McCulloch, who is also the world's largest manufacturer of chain saws and No. 3 maker of outboard motors, was searching for a freshwater site on which to test his engines. After buying out a fishing camp, he quickly built a $250,000 test facility-now expanded into a three-building plant where 180 employees produce chain-saw components and outboard-engine coils, carburetors and regulators...
...WIDOW-MAKER by James Jones. 618 pages. Delacorfe...
...personal fortune of at least $100 million. And they know him at the bank. "There are only three of us on the Champs Elysées," Floirat says expansively, "who can sign a check at a minute's notice for $2,000,000. Dassault, the airplane maker, the Rothschilds...
...Lessinger himself was so shocked when he discovered at least 20 hard LSD users in his own affluent school district that he went out and raised $21,000 to finance an antiacid color documentary, now in the works, called LSD 25. Lessinger got his second shock when Film Maker David Parker asked the high school students whom they would trust as the narrator, got the reply, "Nobody...
...Gold, who took his name from what the streets of America were reportedly paved with and left his native Russian village against the will of his own father. Sam Gold is traced from the pre-World War I ghetto in New York to Cleveland; from water boy to cigar maker to pushcart vender to greengrocer to successful real estate speculator. A prodigious worker, he conquers the New World through the marketplace and adjusts to the traumas of his family's assimilation. He emerges tough, pragmatic, and optimistic beyond the comprehension of his sons...