Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What those who urge still another 250,000 bbl. daily increase fail to consider, snapped Thompson, is the fact that demand for Texas oil will soon decrease. The U.S. Bureau of Mines forecasts a drop of 350,000 bbl. daily in demand for Texas crude next month-and no businessman in his right mind hikes production in the face of a declining market...
...good 5? burnoose and two Sauds in every pot. Do you think a band of small businessmen, clad in their native costume (i.e., working clothes), could hit Generous John Foster for a small loan? If Saud can put his hand out, how about the plight of the small businessman? What with new taxes on trucks, new taxes on having over four employees, old taxes on telephones, travel, entertainment-just plain taxes ad nauseam. LOUISE BUCK ROBSHAM West Yarmouth, Mass...
...businessman has always been dependent on new ideas for survival and growth, but never has he been more determined in his search for new ways of doing things than today. To spur "creativity," businessmen will try anything, from the venerable suggestion box to such freewheeling idea-association techniques as "group thinks," "buzz sessions," "imagineering," and the most popular device of all, the "brainstorm." Originator of the brainstorm* is Alex F. Osborn of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, who defines it as a method in which groups of people "use their brains to storm a creative problem...
Since Pancho has his eye on the present, he is out to win every set he can in his eighth year as a pro. Now an oldtimer at 28, Gonzales is too much of a businessman and too good at his business to take his occasional beatings lightly. He fights for every point. (At Wellington last week, when a close line call went against him, he turned to the stands and asked: "Is there an eye doctor about?") Victories on the tour mean cash-as Pancho has learned the hard way. He signed for $80,000 to play against Kramer...
...route to market. Much of the highway system is in even worse shape. The Ohio valley's population, with one of the lowest per-family incomes ($1,391 a year) in the entire U.S., needs to be trained to operate modern industry's new machines. But no businessman doubts that it will be done. Said a Kaiser Aluminum official: "What we have here is essentially the industrial revolution in miniature...