Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle over Berlin was just beginning. But the U.S. seemed to be on the right track at last. The quiet refusal of General Lucius Clay to back down a fortnight ago in the face of Russian pressure was a prime example of U.S. resolution. Said a businessman in Kansas City: "Now the people of Europe know what to expect. All we need is the determination to carry through...
...Into EGA. With the launching, ERP became ECA, the Economic Cooperation Administration. This week the President picked the man to run it: Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker Corp. and a top-drawer U.S. businessman (see col. 3). The job was no bed of roses; Mr. Hoffman wanted a little time to think it over...
...Paul Gray Hoffman takes the tiller of ECA, an exhausted, socialistic Europe will meet an ebullient U.S. businessman and an evangelist of free enterprise...
...plan, purely voluntary so far, was part of the long-range planning for the defense of the U.S. But no businessman missed the significance in the timing of the announcement...
With a doubtful constituency at stake, Tories pulled out all the stops. Their candidate was young, chubby, glad-handing Frederic Walter Harris, a successful businessman (food products). His slogan: 'The thing to do to industry is to humanize it, not nationalize it." He kept the number of his own employees down to 700; above that figure he felt that the human touch was lost...