Word: businessese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cracks in the Wall. Despite disappointments in the President's failure to rally the great moral and political force that his office and prestige can command, Negroes could count some breakthroughs last week. The University of Kentucky became the first school in the Southeastern Conference to open its athletic...
At length, federal shipments of surplus foods, along with contributions from individuals and private businesses, began flowing into depots set up around Chicago. In scenes reminiscent of the Depression breadlines, Negroes queued up for four days to get 35 Ibs. of food per person. Jostling, weeping, the people shoved their...
Mom and Pop Shops are small businesses that rent their name, product, design and sales methods from big franchisers, while mom and pop put in a little money and a lot of hours. There are now 100,000 of them. (See U.S. BUSINESS.)
As it opened its sooth store last week, a coast-to-coast chain known as McDonald's Hamburgers was busily changing the neon signs that have long recorded how many million hamburgers it has sold. Now the signs will flash the figures in billions, a success reflecting the bustling...
Big Government is counterbalanced by the Big Corporation, which has developed its own smothering bureaucracy. As W. H. Whyte sees the Organization Man, in the office he is engulfed by the team spirit, and in his suburb he is "imprisoned in brotherhood." The indictment, now seven years old, still has...