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Word: whats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spooks & Bugs. Many businessmen shy away from doing the dirty work, hire private eyes to do it for them. The pros easily ease through plant security by using the most hackneyed ruses: posing as rubbernecking stockholders or newsmen, bribing disloyal employees, even hiring on as employees themselves. When a ranking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Spying for Profit | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

The Harvard students' report finds that both small and big businesses need "effective competitive intelligence systems" to hold their own in today's competitive business world-and that setting them up on a formal, ethical basis may do away with a lot of hanky-panky. It also sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Spying for Profit | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Winston is a builder at heart, and wherever he goes-in more than 200,000 miles of travel a year-he preaches the need of more home building. He is convinced that good housing is the best insurance against Communism ("People want to divide what you've got, not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Businessman-Diplomat: The Businessman-Diplomat | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Whatever she had, it was so violently admired by the plutocratic playboys of the Edwardian era that Kansas-born Belle Livingstone was celebrated in the continental press as "The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." What is more, brags Belle, when her day as a gold digger was done, she did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncommon Bawd | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Tennis, Everyone? Author Golden has a Negro bartender-chauffeur now and a packed lecture schedule, but otherwise seems little altered by his success (or by the disclosure last year that he had once served a prison term for mail fraud). Golden believes he is successful because not only Jews but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Will Rogers | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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