Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul G. Hoffman, businessman...
...William C. Foster, businessman, now head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
...midst of the Cuban crisis, on Oct. 24, the day Soviet ships altered their course to avoid collision with the U.S. Navy, a U.S. businessman in Moscow was negotiating a trade deal with Soviet officials. Suddenly, their talks were interrupted by a phone call from the Kremlin: Nikita Khrushchev would be happy to receive William E. Knox, president of Westinghouse International Co. Knox had not asked for the interview, so Khrushchev, as he often does, was obviously trying to use an American visitor to pipe some of his views into the U.S. This week Knox revealed what was said...
Music at Cash Registers. Around the country, corporate economists are hedging their earlier predictions of a slump. Said Ford's Henry Ford II: "I don't know of a single businessman who has talked in terms of a recession next year. That kind of talk has come from the economists. But you don't even hear so much of it from them any more." The automakers, of course, have more to cheer about than other businessmen: October's sales of 728,500 U.S.-made cars were the highest for any month in history (and more than...
...real answer to the balance of payments in the end, says Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, falls on the foreign adventurism of the U.S. businessman. To close the payments gap, he says, "will take a substantial and accelerating increase in U.S. exports of goods and services...