Word: busied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hedged with two provisos: 1) a 20% fare increase for 55 million commuters, which White recommended; 2) easing of the crushing property taxes levied against the railroad by local governments and used in part to build superhighways and extend subway services that have cut the railroad's busi ness by 50 million passengers since...
...returns crept up to $462,519. Mr. Watson reduced his 5% take to 2½% as of Jan. 1, 1942. I.B.M. business multiplied. As 1942 approached its end, President Watson again faced an inevitable, enormous bonanza. He took a drastic step, requested that his extra compensation for 1942 be no greater than in 1939, explaining that thereby he would avoid personal profit from the company's munitions busi ness, of which it had none in '39. (Watson is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) Result of his abnegations: President Watson received a mere...
...abandon the idea that the public has no confidence in our point of view. . . . This, as I see it, is the biggest challenge before management today: will we take the same initiative in public affairs we always have taken in the management of our individual busi nesses? It will mean an end to the easy practice of saying nothing except to criticize the mistakes of others. It will mean that we will have to take the responsibility of making constructive recommendations of our own, and this includes accepting the blame if these recommendations go wrong. . . . If we want the public...
...SCIENCE 62 SCIENCE 63 89 63 64 90 64 yu 65 91 65 yi 66 92 66 no 67 93 67 -' 68 69 94 68 69 94 ne 95 70 70 THE THE BUSI ARTS NESS 96 BUSI NESS 96 FINANCE 97 FINANCE 97 71 98 71 98 72 99 72 99 73 100 73 100 74 101 74 101 75 102 75 102 76 103 76 103 77 104 77 104 78 105 78 105 ANSWER SHEET ANSWER SHEET -commuED « -CONTINUED -, -53 PIC 53 PIC TURES TURES 79 THEA 79 THEA...
Novelist Tarkington, one of the kindliest and most helpful writers in the busi ness, soothed and encouraged Suppliant Roberts. Trouble was, he said, that he had the makings of two fine novels, maybe even three or four. Let Roberts write the story of the Quebec expedition first...