Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific Northwest. Said Griffith: "No matter how much you think you are prepared for the Texas story by what you have heard and read, you are astonished by what you see. In a week in Texas, we heard not one real doubt of the future, no talk of recession. Businessman after businessman used the phrase free enterprise without putting quotes around it with their eyes. Texans are spending money as if they believed in free enterprise, as in fact they obviously...
SCAP is still criticized in some quarters for its cumbersome, red-taped bureaucracy.* There are too many military minds fumbling with unmilitary chores. One American businessman recently complained: "They clutter up any piece of business with the damndest bureaucracy you ever saw. But foreign businessmen here can at least get into SCAP and yell. The Japanese businessmen are even more helpless and paralyzed-and don't even dare go near SCAP...
...scene seemed symbolic of Western man's hasty and confused exodus from China. But not all Westerners left. Many decided to stick it out with their Chinese friends. Said the wife of a U.S. businessman who stayed: "I feel like a cross between Florence Nightingale and a damn fool, but I'm staying...
...thing, said Comstock, "learn something about the business you apply to for a job. Know what job to ask for. Don't tell an employer you'll 'do anything' . . . Don't brag and don't bluff. Any successful businessman can spot bragging or bluffing easily. He's been doing it himself all his life...
...Manhattan last week, bushy-browed Edward J. Noble, who made a mint out of Life Savers, turned a businessman's hard and appraising eye on network television's prospects. Noble is chairman of American Broadcasting Co. and he was speaking to his company's stockholders. The way he saw it, TV was no way for a broadcaster to get rich quick and his stockholders should get that straight.* He was facing them at the first annual meeting since his privately owned ABC had sold 500,000 shares of stock to the public last year, partly...