Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cushion for Casualties. Yet soon or late, and probably soon, more concentration will be on the way. To carry it out much will depend on the good sense of the Government and the small businessman himself. For the latter the hardest lesson of all is that though he is fighting for his life, so after all is his country. For Government the biggest problem is to provide some means of compensation, without engaging in monumental subsidies, so that businesses which are squeezed out now can reappear later. Best notion yet advanced is Donald Nelson's recommendation to Congress last...
Stores will be classed as independent, chain and supermarket. To end frozen-price inequalities in competing stores and ease the small businessman's position, each store class will be assigned definite markups above operating costs. The markups are to be based on studies (made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) of margins of several thousand U.S. food stores. Independent grocers generally will be allowed wider margins than chains and big markets to allow for difference in business methods and operating costs. Similar controls will be extended to wholesalers...
...infuriating story" is told in FORTUNE for January: the futile effort of Drury A. McMillen, Yale graduate, engineer and businessman of São Paulo, Brazil, to persuade the U.S. armed forces to adopt a new, simplified system of aviation navigation...
While Washington officials last week were struggling with the problem of Little Business (see above) a significant letter from a little businessman in Wehrmacht uniform addressed to the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reached the outside world. It said...
...followed and understood the meaning of all the economic laws of the past few years. Whether they dealt with the closing of factories, the naming of new administrators, expanding the authority of Government agencies, they always, without exception, have been measures whose ultimate results were directed against the little businessman. Or did anybody ever perchance hear of just one case wherein a profitable, large industry closed and its capital, labor and contracts were handed over to the small entrepreneur? Or that any Government administrator ever assigned interesting, lucrative contracts to small firms and less profitable contracts to big ones...