Word: businesswoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like to run around." Mrs. Bessie Punyanitya Samargachan, 37, has expanded her Boon Vanit Travel Agency from a tiny concern with one part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi Sombatsiri, owner and operator of Bangkok's biggest bus company, the White Bus Line. Trim, thirtyish Mrs. Lursakdi, a former Thai golf champion, inherited the company from her father, built it into one of the country's most progressive businesses. It provides workers...
Hope Diamond is a pro, but one gets the feeling that she's as much of an efficient businesswoman as a performer, that she draws a paycheck, not like the older burlies performers the very breath of life, from the spotlight. She's more of a respectable madame figure than a temptress. And when the show has closed and the props are packed, she is no longer Hope Diamond, gem of the exotics, but Leona Bonaccolte, reader of Gibran, mother, and resident of Edgewater...
...after the 1929-30 crash his father lost his job and never worked again. Says Brother Fred: "Mother was a madam president, but she was never really the president of anything, always just the second level. But Mother used to throw it around: 'I'm a businesswoman,' she would say. John was very hurt by this." Admits Cheever: "It was one of the reasons I left home so early. I'd be damned if I would be supported by a gift shop...
...that the husband of Businesswoman Lady Bird Johnson has promised to seek out more women for federal jobs, the spotlight has been focused on a force in the U.S. economy that is growing in numbers and importance: women workers. One in every three U.S. women works-half again as many as 15 years ago-and one in every three workers is a woman. The number of women in the labor force, which stands at 25 million, is growing by 2.5% a year, compared with a 1.4% gain for men. Last week several steps were afoot to open still more jobs...
...many as in 1946-and Madison Avenue has at least 600 women advertising executives, two-thirds of whom earn more than $10,000. One of the ad gals, Kay Daly, vice president of Revlon, Inc., earns $100,000 or more-which could make her the highest-paid U.S. businesswoman...