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...first things he developed was a cheaper and more efficient device to delay electric impulses in TV tape recorders to eliminate picture distortion. Ampex, the biggest producer of recording equipment, had not yet made one, so it handed Steve a big order that put him solidly in busi ness. He leased a plant, hired a few young employees (mostly students) to turn out his products...
Behind the Fed's new and heartening figures lay years of careful work in sharpening its sampling techniques to reflect both the 1954 and 1957 census of busi ness, plus a wealth of fresh new information on what is really going on in the U.S. economy...
...Chinese community to his salesmen. His Asian pool expanded so rapidly that in 1926 Starr returned to New York and created the American International Underwriters Corp. to centralize reporting for his Shanghai companies and to develop insurance in the U.S. on risks abroad. Starr's hard drive for busi ness did not endear him to more genteel competitors. They called him a buccaneer as he snatched their business away, often by offering higher commissions to agents, and larger rebates to those insured if they filed no claims...
...vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco ("Pancho") Villa and Emiliano Zapata. But U.S. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson cooperated actively against Madero, supported Victoriano Huerta as a better friend of U.S. busi ness interests. When Madero was killed, Zapata and Pancho Villa joined with Venustiano Carranza in a new revolt. In Washington Woodrow Wilson realized Huerta could not maintain stability and switched U.S. support to Carranza, saying. "I intend to teach the South American republics to elect good men." A U.S. fleet invaded Veracruz...
Businessmen who once decried Gov ernment meddling in the economy also recognize that most federal police powers, e.g., regulation of the stock market, benefit business as well as the consumer. Most businessmen today agree with Du Pont Chairman Walter S. Carpenter Jr. that the anti-trust laws, under which his com pany has been haled into court 22 times, "are fair and should be vigorously enforced." Though some businessmen still argue publicly that the Federal Government should stop regulating business, the majority agree privately that Government intervention is preferable to the economy of the jungle. Says Standard...