Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earnings range from 53? to 75? an hour. But many workers chose R.M.R. over other plants paying the same wages because "the gossip is better." High-school girls work next to soldiers on pass from Truax Field. Said one businessman: "Here's me so soft I get out of breath tying my own shoe laces. So I'm tossing 75-lb. boxes around. I look down the aisle, and there's one of my biggest, toughest employes working with an eye dropper...
Keeping this fact in mind, many a businessman expects that profits will hold up fairly well under the comparatively small cutbacks planned...
...stated policy of the U.S. on cartels is "down with 'em." In the opinion of many a U.S. businessman, this uncompromising attitude is only half a solution. It leaves unsolved the problem of developing a booming postwar trade with cartel-minded nations. Last week, the potent National Foreign Trade Council, Inc., whose 700 members expect to do the bulk of this trading, put out its own solution...
...plan would calm the populace considerably. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...
...many an apprehensive U.S. businessman who was using German and other foreign developments to implement the fight against the Axis, the timing of Biddle's lawsuit was as hard to explain as his suits against many another big war producer-e.g., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Republic Steel Corp. About all these companies could do was to go on producing, while they waited to see what would happen next. Some of Biddle's flamboyant legal ventures-e.g., the abortive mass trial of alleged seditionists in Washington, his garishly publicized attempt...