Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...splendid achievement, said the President. But he also wanted to sound a sober note of warning. Said he: "I hope every businessman, worker, farmer and consumer will take to heart this sentence [from the report]: 'An all-out emphasis on production of finished goods and on preventing a further increase in prices is the task immediately before...
...Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life, the day she first drops inhibition and learns sex exists outside...
...Dealers. As a side line, he cultivates politics-and politicos. He probably knows his way around Washington better than any other businessman. In these days when political storms determine so much of the business climate, he feels that the views of businessmen are poorly represented where they count. The National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he likes to say, "spend a lot of money saying only what will please their members...
Dark-haired, full-blown, 27-year-old Eileen Herlie (née O'Herlihy) is the Scotch-Irish daughter of a small businessman in Glasgow. Until last week her career has been much like that of most other young actresses. As a little girl she always hogged the starring roles in re-enactments of movies; as a teen-ager she met stern opposition from her parents when she wanted to play-act for keeps. Her tribulations as a typist were anesthetized by amateur theatricals; as soon as she saved a little money she fled to London for "the most...
...time the stockmarket slump reached Southern California, it had become for many a storybook affair concocted of wishful thinking. "It's manipulation and you know it is," snapped an angry Los Angeles businessman...