Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ticking, Lawson says it is a nonprofit organization which gets its funds by selling his lucubrations. Improbable as that may seem, the Direct Credits Society's rating is no joke to Dun & Bradstreet. On that score at least, Des Moines had nothing to lose. Said one practical businessman last week: "If he's got money to spend, let him spend it here...
Paul Hoffman is also an extremely successful businessman. He is a recognized power, well beyond the size of his company, in the rough & tumble automobile industry. What is more remarkable, he got there as a salesman, not a production...
...extent that U.S. industry does not achieve this goal (which requires a 40% increase in gross output over 1940), the U.S. public will rightfully insist that the U.S. Government achieve it-"expansion is the one idea we have to sell America." He also says that "when you get a businessman in a tight enough corner, he reluctantly starts thinking his way out of it." Thus C.E.D. was set up with a Field Division to help each U.S. employer think about how to expand his own business...
...only concrete help C.E.D. has advanced to the little businessman-whose main concern is bound to be next week's payroll-is advice and a plan for a research brochure. In his less evangelistic moments, Hoffman admits 1) that he is not worrying about the 400-500 really big businesses: he thinks they can take care of themselves; 2) that the very small enterpriser will be hard to reach in any concrete way. Yet the future of U.S. employment is almost certain to be made by these extremes of enterprise...
...hands $3,600,000,000 in un delivered war contracts. When World War II ends, U.S. industry may be buried under $75,000,000,000 worth. How this Atlantean burden may hamstring recon version to peacetime production, by tying up capital, is a nightmare to many a U.S. businessman...