Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authority of Government agencies, they always, without exception, have been measures whose ultimate results were directed against the little businessman. Or did anybody ever perchance hear of just one case wherein a profitable, large industry closed and its capital, labor and contracts were handed over to the small entrepreneur? Or that any Government administrator ever assigned interesting, lucrative contracts to small firms and less profitable contracts to big ones...
Then the heavy hand of Wellesley interference in private enterprise fell. A frenzied call from Waban informed the Harvard entrepreneur that "no copies are to be released to Harvard." Too many girls had been molested by anonymous wolves last year as a result of the Register's distribution...
Died. Lucien Boyer, 66, Paris music-hall singer, songwriter, librettist, entrepreneur; in Paris. He popularized MadeIon in World War I, wrote for Mistinguette and Maurice Chevalier, founded Montmartre's famed Chat Noir cabaret. As Montmartre's Ambassador Eccentric & Extraordinary, he was once delegated to present his credentials to President Harding, but never made the trip...
...year of need. Some yards broke records. Some yards expanded like mushrooms overnight. Some builders bettered the Commission's 105-day schedule for building Liberty Ships. Bethlehem-Fairfield Yard at Baltimore announced a 75-day goal. The West Coast's hurry-up man, Henry J. Kaiser, entrepreneur, builder of dams, and now of ships, claimed a record of 81 days at iris Portland, Ore. shipyard...
There go-getting George Halas started his career as a football entrepreneur. Remembering Illinois Coach Bob Zuppke's everlasting moan that his players always graduated just as they got to be good, Halas decided to round up recent college graduates for a professional team. The following year (1921), Halas took his Staleys to Chicago, rented the Cubs ball park, renamed his team the Bears, became a charter member of the National Football League...