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Five years ago Chicago Merchant Maurice Goldblatt declared unrelenting war on cancer, which had caused the death of his younger brother Nathan. Later the Goldblatt Foundation gave $1,000,000 to kick off a fund drive for a University of Chicago research center (TIME, Dec. 8, 1947). Last week exuberant little Maurice Goldblatt himself laid the cornerstone for the $2,075,000 Nathan Goldblatt Memorial Hospital...
...businessman had the push & pull to make big money in Argentina, it was Alberto Dodero. The youngest and brightest of five sons of an Italian immigrant in Uruguay, he built his father's tidy little shipping business into the biggest merchant fleet in South America, became a flashy free-spending tycoon who dazzled even the free-spending Argentines. Last week, at 62, in one of the most startling moves in a full-blown career, he abdicated as shipping king...
...Harrodian tradition began in May 1849, when Tea Merchant Henry Charles Harrod opened a three-room grocery in Knightsbridge. His son, Charles Digby Harrod, proved to be something of a taskmaster when he took over in 1861. He installed a removable staircase at his employees' entrance, and took it away at 8 a.m. Store help who showed up later than that could not get in. He also abolished "cook's perks," the traditional perquisite for servants who bought their masters' provisions at the store. Eventually, he sold out to a group which turned Harrods into a public...
...play, an eighteenth century comedy of manners, tells of the financial downfall of a count's family as a result of the count's interest in antiques. The demise of the family is temporarily staved off by the daughter's marriage to a wealthy merchant...
...were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was the master of fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing at the rate of about one million a year) were bottled up on the overcrowded islands of Japan in a space hardly capable of supporting 50 million. The disaster, which Japan had richly earned, was compounded...