Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before in the history of this up and down American Economy. Income payments, now at a level of $161 billion, have decreased less than expected thanks partially to the efforts of the unions in their recent wage campaigns. The press has attempted to arouse sympathy for the strike-beset businessman. The lack of such conspicuous items as automobiles (caused by other frictions of reconversion as well as by collective bargaining breakdowns) has obscured the realities of the boom. First-quarter reports on corporate profits, compiled by the Department of Commerce, revealed that in some industries, as the Department's "Survey...
While Constable Earp did his bit, the Lamar City Council and Chamber of Commerce continued to search for someone to erect two neon signs at the city limits. Said Businessman Gordon Boyer...
...Chamber of Deputies was examining the credentials of new members elected in July. Among the opposition was Accion Nacional's Antonio L. Rodríguez, big businessman from Monterrey. When his name was called, a voice from the Government side cried: "Alas for the revolution! An industrialist, a banker, an enemy of the revolution...
Quickly Rodríguez replied: "That I am a banker, an industrialist and a businessman should cause you no wonder. I am only reversing the procedure-you others came into this Congress, and emerged as bankers, industrialists and businessmen...
...pastel-tinted, rambling ranch houses and hangars of "Thunderbird One," the Institute planned to train a new kind of cadet, the young businessman or diplomat prepping for a Latin-American career. Yount's salary as president of "Thunderbird College": $1,000 a month...