Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above the rate of 1938. Nor did the Department of Labor uphold the Secretary of the Treasury's inner circle reputation as a prophet when it announced that factory employment for May was off 1.1 points more than seasonally (to 90.1 on its index). Many a U. S. businessman saw a patch of blue sky early in May, when there was a flurry in steel (TIME, May 22), but last week it seemed only to have been a hole in the overcast...
...ages and classes. A hard-working farmer or laborer needs an abundance of fuel foods such as bread, potatoes and meat. A growing child needs almost twice as much food as his sedentary father. A Southerner needs less starch, sugar and fat than a Northerner. A desk-bound businessman needs practically no white bread, potatoes, cakes and pies. But for health and longevity, eaters of all ages and classes must tuck in one quart of milk every day, a variety of vegetables, fruits, fresh red meat, fish, and eggs several times a week. Also essential are whole-wheat grains...
Aids to the general clack of reminiscence were three passengers who had crossed on the Mauretania's, maiden voyage in 1907: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Middlemass, of Glasgow, Little Businessman Cyrus Morfey, of Herefordshire. All three said they liked the new ship fine...
...Fred Waring is trim, clear-blue-eyed, looks nearer 30. In his course as a musical businessman he has picked up two subsidiaries, Words & Music Inc., and a $250,000 venture in an electric drink and food mixer he thought up two years ago. The Waring mixer in its first year and a half sold 60,000, is still going strong...
Many a small businessman confronted by a National Labor Relations Board complaint has ruefully decided it was cheaper to sign a consent decree, setting up new labor conditions in his plant, than to fight the case. Hartley Wade Barclay, editor of the industrial monthly Mill and Factory discovered one big reason why this is true. Intrigued by wholesale capitulation of small business in labor cases, Editor Barclay investigated the cost of defenses to NLRB complaints. Ruling out the automobile company cases because the amounts expended were so large that they would unbalance his study, he last week published his finding...