Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best, however carefully and sympathetically planned, price control would be in conflict with the traditional U.S. system. And many a businessman considers Chester Bowles far from sympathetic-possibly because, in his fight for the consumer's pocketbook, he has become the darling not only of the nation's housewives but also of its noisiest leftists, who like to think of price control as a step toward planned economy...
...tickers tapped out their reports of year-end earnings, they proved what many a businessman has suspected: war's end and reconversion has been easy on U.S. pocketbooks...
...wartime pinch, when Communist Earl Browder first put forth the heresy that capitalism and social gain might be compatible, his U.S. comrades have been sniping at him. In July 1945, on orders from abroad, they demoted him from boss. Last week, pondering his recent conversion into a little businessman (TIME, Jan. 28), they recommended his expulsion from the party. The charges: "[Browder] is an active opponent of the party representing an enemy-class ideology. . . . [He] supports the entire policy of the Truman Administration, including its imperialist course in foreign affairs...
...jobs also, at $20,000 a year apiece. And through a block of 300,000 shares of stock which Higgins Industries would also receive, Andy Higgins would hold the largest single block of stock, probably enough for working control of the new company. Looking at all this, many a businessman wondered if he too should not "go out of business...
...brilliant performer is Industry Minister Hilary Mine (rhymes with quince), 41, a blond, bespectacled intellectual who spent the war years teaching economics in Russia. He drafted the drastic Nationalization Bill. His avowed objective is "the liquidation of feudalism and also capitalism in Poland." The son of a wealthy Warsaw businessman, Mine was brought up in comparative luxury. Old Madame Mine used to brag about her eccentric boy. "My Hilary," she would tell her friends, "started showing Communist leanings at a very early date. When he was 17, he would never light a cigaret before offering one to our maidservant...