Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor business, in the long run, for any businessman to seek exorbitant profits in this period of defense spending...
...Harry Hopkins' wing of the White House to straighten the kinks in the Army's Motor Transport Division. MTD needs 286,000 vehicles, now has only 210,000 of all types; it is also dangerously short of repair stations and spare parts. Straightening these kinks is a businessman...
Stocky, slit-eyed, tweedy Milo Perkins is a rare New Deal exhibit: a hard-driving businessman who left a thriving business to take a modest job in a Government bureau. He did it because he is an evangelist at heart. Unlike many a cynical Government worker, Milo Perkins really believes in the New Deal credo that "nobody should go hungry...
...brought together 55 prime contractors holding over $3,000,000,000 in defense orders and about 1,200 would-be subcontractors. Like its 50-odd-predecessors, the clinic's procedure was convention-like: registration, handshakes, conferences, cigars. But the atmosphere was far more serious. To many a little businessman, the clinic might easily mean the difference between commercial life & death. Each prime contractor had a table in the hotel ballrooms, a few rickety chairs, a big placard stating his name, the kind of work he could farm out. Soon prime and subcontractors were head-to-head...
...short, he is a reluctant interventionist who wants to return to an isolationist America after the war; he is the businessman working in Washington who-between lunches at his desk and 14 hours a day of work-dreams of some day being shut of this and going home again. He cannot get it through his head that America may never go home again...