Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True Story. He began by telling a story about how Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, flying to Miami with a leading Florida businessman a year or so ago, spent most of his time explaining how the man's company would benefit if the Administration's investment-credit tax bill were passed. When the plane landed, the man said to Dillon: "I am very grateful to you for explaining the bill. Now tell me just once more why it is I am against...
...garu (modern girl) is now avid for nairon sutokkingu (nylon stockings), the hittu parado (hit parade) and the popular magazines sekkuso sutori (sex stories). In showbiz, which is naturally fantazikku, starlets grapple with ojishon, kamera tesuto and doresu rihaasaru (audition, camera test, dress rehearsal). "Aimu sori," says the Japanese businessman as he breaks a kakuteiru (cocktail) date with his garufurendo (girl friend). He has time only for hassaru (hustle) and greater purodakuchibichi (productivity...
Perhaps the first U.S. businessman to share his company's profits with workers-at his Pennsylvania glass plant in 1797-was Albert Gallatin, the Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson...
...ASEA!s, Vasteras headquarters just like other employees. He is on the move at least half the time keeping up with work in ASEA's 18 plants in Sweden and six abroad. He takes home paperwork but does not like to. "The crucial problem for today's businessman," he says, "is to find the time to think, and I try to reserve time for thinking...
...husbands react to this new restlessness? Fewer and fewer seem to be grousing about the idea of a tired businessman coming home to a tired businesswoman. "In only one or two cases," says Anne Cronin, "have husbands gotten stuffy about their wives' going back into careers. For the most part, they're serious and understanding. We're not breaking up any homes that wouldn't break up anyway...