Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...withholding tax developed a sudden and unexpected hitch. Many a little businessman now discovered that when his employes balked at smaller paychecks (TIME, July 26), he had to pay the tax himself or find new workers...
Wrote Lyons: "Canadian officials aren't trying to reform their economic system. They are just keeping prices down." Key industrialists run price control: "The Government always has a businessman to take the rap when his industry howls . . . and the Government is tough to business. Their excess-profits...
...stock out of the cat-&-dog area is because he figures that it will thereby become a more useful vehicle for expansion. Low-priced stocks usually attract small-time speculators who figure they get more when they buy 100 shares at $5 than 10 shares at $50; when a businessman sells out his company for another company's stock, he looks for blue-chip prestige. Thus when Standard bought the Loudon Packing Co. (V8 Vegetable Juice) last March, the Loudons insisted on cash, but when General Foods bought out Snider Packing at about the same time, only common stock...
Plush Hopes. The possibility of rebuilding the opera has long obsessed a New Orleans businessman named Walter L. Loubat. In his childhood he sold peanuts and was an usher in the old building. Last winter Loubat formed the New Orleans Opera House Association, gathered $7,200 in subscriptions, planned to raise more with popular-priced opera...
...colleagues, became momentarily the nation's most publicized lawmaker. A deluge of fan mail (10-to-1 in favor) descended on his desk. Interviewers discovered that the first-termer from Fayetteville was young (38), smart (Rhodes scholar), studious (onetime president of the University of Arkansas), aggressive (lacrosse ),"hardheaded (businessman, farmer). Asked how long it took him to write his one-sentence resolution, he replied philosophically: "Fifteen years...