Word: businessmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communists do not necessarily persecute the Jews for the Nazis' racial reasons, but mainly because so many of the Jews are small businessmen, i.e., bourgeois "class enemies." One example: of Budapest's 19,000 clothing and textile stores, 18,000 are owned by Jews. Many of the stores have already been driven into bankruptcy by heavy taxation and government-operated shops which make a point of underselling them. The rest of the Jewish stores will shortly be expropriated, according to Hungarian Economic Boss Zoltan Vas, himself...
Tricks. Faced with slumping sales, many other manufacturers were trying similar tricks. They were well aware that the drop in buying was caused less by a lack of customers' cash than a stubborn rebellion against high prices. Though businessmen grumbled about recession, it was still the most prosperous recession the U.S. had ever had. Consumers' dollars could still be lured out for the right product at the right price...
Most British businessmen complain of stock difficulties-the high cost of raw materials, the heavy taxes they bear to maintain Socialist Britain's welfare program, and that old devil, the U.S. tariff. Some Americans, among them ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman (TIME, April 11), hold that this complaint has a sound basis; they believe that by agitating for higher tariffs and trying to thwart British trade, U.S. businessmen are actually working against their own interests. They believe it is up to the U.S. to help British and other European exporters through their troubles by allotting them a larger share...
...dictated by a rumor that strikebreakers would be brought into the plant of the Canadian Johns-Manville Co., chief employer in Asbestos. Barricades manned by club-wielding strikers were thrown up on all roads into the town. All cars were stopped and searched. Clergymen, doctors and well-known businessmen were allowed to pass and a few newsmen got through, but they were warned to take no pictures. Policemen in Asbestos huddled inside the Johns-Manville property waiting for reinforcements...
...Chairman Nourse dozing a bit himself? Most Government economists and almost all businessmen had been banking on a strong spring upturn to check the recession. So far, no sizable upturn had come. Instead, production in April (as measured by the Federal Reserve index based on the 1935-39 average) had tumbled another 5 points to 179. The index stood a full 16 points below last November's postwar peak of 195. This was the sharpest five-month drop since the 1945 reconversion shakeout after...