Word: afield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre northern California sanctuary, Wyntoon, for an estimated $2.000,000 annual return. Berlin has also invested in new properties whenever the risk looked good. Hearst's stable of 13 magazines, one of the relatively few consistent moneymakers in the empire, has grown by the addition of Sports Afield (1953) and Popular Mechanics (1958). With Avon (117 new titles last year), Businessman Berlin picked up a growing firm in a growing field...
...hills surrounding a vast ranch far out in the bush. In the outback country he found a shifting population of aborigines. The old people led him along circuitous trails to their usual Wondjina pictures, and "touched" them for him (Lommel swears the rain came each time). But forging farther afield himself, Lommel came to other rock drawings the natives themselves had never seen, and knew nothing about...
...similar efforts, the College of Medical Evangelists' search was bankrolled by business. In the hope that it would turn up marketable items, New York's Sterling Drug Inc. had just underwritten the four-year program for $240,000. Virtually all major U.S. drug companies had herb hunters afield, either directly employed or under contract. All their people have been enlisted as part-time hunters: when Francis C. Brown, president of New Jersey's Schering Corp., was in Port-au-Prince for the recent opening of the Haiti Psychiatric Institute, he heard of a red nut used...
...Which also publishes Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, Bride and Home, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, Sports Afield, Motor Boating, American Druggist and Motor...
...apostle of U.S. private enterprise, Kansas Oilman Bill Graham has ranged far afield with cash and encouragement for budding businessmen (TIME, Dec. 23). He has backed furniture makers in Greece, cement contractors in Lebanon, nylon manufacturers in India. This week Bill Graham was looking right in his own backyard for business ideas to encourage. Onto a statewide TV hookup from Wichita's KAKE-TV went the first of twelve TV programs called Opportunity Knocks that will award up to $75,000 in financial backing to the best home-grown ideas for small business...