Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Britons thought there was another way. A British leather-goods manufacturer, like a Drake of commerce, last week cried to his griping colleagues: "How can we not sell in the States? Remember that vast country has half the world's spending money in its pockets. Go out there, man, and get some...
...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...
...wearing gold replicas of their profiles in his lapel. By the time Perón's election and inauguration were over, Don Alberto had become a permanent house guest in the presidential residence. The Perón government threw almost all its shipping contracts to him, lent him money to buy more ships, granted him many another fat favor. It went all-out on a long-ignored demand for indemnity on a Dodero ship that had been sunk by the Nazis in 1940. In addition to the 2,000,000 pesos that Dodero had asked, it gave...
Swarthy, suave Alberto Dodero knew what he wanted to do with his money. He bought a yacht, a plane, a fleet of cars, elaborate homes near Buenos Aires and Montevideo, in New York, London, Paris and Cannes. He entertained like a Croesus, invited scores of guests for a lobster supper as casually as he brought five kilos of white truffles from Rome. During summers on the Riviera he spent an estimated $50,000 a week for entertainment. He had a sharp eye-as well as the gifts of a Santa Claus-for pretty women. He has been twice married...
...Churchill Downs about noon on Derby day. Meanwhile Trainer Ben ("B.A.") Jones had told everybody who would listen how little he thought of his horse's chances. "I wouldn't bet a dollar on Ponder if he was 100 to 1," said he. "If he gets third money ($5,000), old B.A. will be the happiest man in the world." Ben Jones-and most everybody else-thought that Olympia, the 4 to 5 favorite, would win "from here to China...