Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Subsidies discourage initiative because they remove the powerful incentive that any businessman (or farmer) has to keep going somehow. )- Subsidies breed more' subsidies. Said Albert S. Goss, getting his potent National Grange on the anti-subsidy record: "Having once established subsidies how are we ever going to get rid of them?" Others extended this point: as subsidies are applied to more & more products, consumers will save money by paying fixed prices, but this saving will be canceled by the higher taxes they must then...
...Businessman's Beliefs. Along with Henry Taylor's dislike of theories which do not take that confident spirit of his ancestors into account is his sharp warning against vague postwar plans. Far from using Walter Lippmann's language, he nevertheless repeats Lippmann's arguments against unlimited international commitments that are not backed up by the power to make them effective. "We are in no position to lift the standard of living in China, in Russia, among 400,000,000 impoverished people on the overpopulated peninsula of Europe. . . . The whole conception of ... infusing the Four Freedoms...
...their first meeting the Generals brought the representatives they had agreed on after weeks of negotiation. For De Gaulle: Andre Philip, Socialist deputy in contact with the French underground, and Rene Massigli, veteran diplomat. For Giraud: Jean Monnet, able businessman, well known in Washington and London, and General Alphonse Joseph Georges, No. 2 in military command during 1940's lost Battle of France. As seventh man and balance wheel: tactful General Georges Catroux, chief intermediary in arranging the Algiers conference...
...businessman: "Will try to see more...
International General Electric Co. is planning to pour some $10 million into new Brazilian electrical manufacturing plants. But I.G.E.'s president, able, 64-year-old Clark Haynes Minor, who knows the world as well as many a U.S. businessman knows his own country, claims that the new plants will expand, not retard, I.G.E.'s flow of exports from the U.S. to Brazil...