Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carver history, as he sees it, occurred in 1931, when his father moved his family, his wife and four children, including the youngest, Phillip, 13, from Nashville to Memphis. George Carver, an eminently respectable lawyer, had been "deceived and nearly financially ruined" by his business association with a Nashville entrepreneur. Old-fashioned honor demanded a move to a place where the innocent man could start all over again. The son, grown middle-aged, remains fixed in his opinion of this event: "I thought Father had ruined all our lives, except...
...Taba. The coastal strip, five miles southwest of the Israeli town of Eilat, already boasted a Tahitian-style resort village, complete with topless beach, which had been built by a businessman with a 98-year lease from the Israeli government. Seven months later, in November 1982, another entrepreneur completed a 326-room, $20 million hotel at Taba. The builder, Eli Papouchado, knew that ownership of the land was disputed, but says he went ahead with government approval. Israel bases its claim to Taba on a 1906 Turkish map that delineated the border between Egypt and Palestine, which was then...
...being kicked off in Dallas. The city is seeking businesses and community groups to underwrite the future college tuitions of some 1,000 local sixth graders, most of them blacks from poor sections of the city. To help launch the project, the man who inspired it, New York City Entrepreneur Eugene Lang, was squired through a two-day round of banquets and tributes by Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. Five years ago, Lang promised the 61 sixth graders at his former elementary school in Harlem that he would help pay the college tuition for every one of them...
...living room done in walnut and brass, and a Lenox china service for twelve. Business entertainment is given as one reason for these wonders. Playing with trains is the fuller explanation. If you are going to play, however, why not do things in a big way? In 1973 Entrepreneur Roy Thorpe, 50, from Fort Lauderdale, was talked into taking a steam locomotive excursion from Hoboken, N.J., to Binghamton, N.Y. Hitched to the train was the Clover Colony, a perfectly restored Pullman. Thorpe had a couple of whiskey sours while watching the Delaware Water Gap recede from the car's veranda...
...news at once. Their financial statement included $26 million in loss provisions for the ill-starred Goodwill Games, which had ended less than four weeks earlier. Turner noted that while his losses are "on their face, quite large," TBS business operations continued to show "satisfactory growth." The seafaring entrepreneur clearly intends to hang onto his dogged spirit of optimism as he tries to beat past the threatening reefs...