Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone who asks for the secret of his business success, Claud H. Foster has a simple answer: "My best advice is you get in tune with the secret partner because He'll do something for you." The secret partner...
Flying Missionaries. In all his troubles, LeTourneau never forgot his Senior Partner. He set up a school to teach missionaries how to fly their own planes, let them pay their tuition by working for his company. He busily invented new methods and machines. Among them: the "Tournalayer," a giant machine that can turn out small concrete houses at the rate of almost one a day; a machine with electric motors in each wheel for greater maneuverability...
...much as an all-night poker game. When the cards were dealt in 1950, every player had a tidy little stack of EPUnits (one unit equals $1), distributed according to size. Iceland was low man with $15 million; the vast sterling area, which was admitted as a single trading partner, got $1.06 billion. If any nation went into debt, its IOUs were good, at least at the beginning. But the rules of the game made it tough on reckless losers: the moreIOUs a nation wrote, the larger the proportion of its debts it would have to settle in gold...
Questions & Answers. The time of the visit was auspicious. The State Department was restudying its Western Hemisphere policy and seriously considering whether it should recognize as a basic fact that Brazil is the U.S.'s principal Latin American partner. In Rio, a joint commission was planning a billion-dollar Brazilian development program, half of it to be financed mainly by U.S. loans. Earlier in the week $37.5 million in rail and power loans for Brazil had been announced by the World Bank in Washington...
...bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade...