Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overoptimism was dying hard. It still professed hopes of a freer trading world, based on the agreement which 18 nations had reached last week at Geneva. But nobody in Washington had a clear answer to this question: How was the world going to move toward freer trade until a businessman could once again walk into a bank and exchange one currency for another at a rate fixed by the operation of free markets...
...Many a businessman last week nodded agreement. The Federal Trade Commission's attack on the steel industry's "price-fixing conspiracy" (TIME, Aug. 25) had hardly left the headlines when the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division sprang into feverish action...
Democratic politicos began to look at themselves in a new perspective. Until a few1 weeks ago, Navy Secretary James Forrestal had turned a deaf ear to proposals that he should be Harry Truman's running mate in 1948. Despite his obvious qualifications (residence in New York, businessman's background, distinguished Government service), he did not want to ally himself with what might be a losing ticket. But by last week he felt good enough about Democratic chances in 1948 to tell friends he would be glad to make the vice-presidential race if the party would have...
...Waring profile is sagging slightly, but the Waring temperament is as sharp as ever. "I'm a perfectionist," explains Fred in his twangy Pennsylvania Tone-Syllables. He can make the claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
...chief U.S. logistics problem was the supply of Scotch. It was scarce in Rio, even at $115 a case, and the U.S. Embassy staff had pooled its bottles to float Ambassador Bill Pawley's projected cocktail party for 2,000. When one businessman bragged that he owned four bottles of Scotch, another cracked: "Don't say that out loud or you'll be giving a reception for Marshall...