Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union Station in the care of Monsignor Curtis Tiernan. Some of the ladies felt a little trepidation. Pug-nosed, cheerful Monsignor Tiernan, the boys' old World War I chaplain, had never been a stern watchdog and he didn't look like one. His charges-staid-looking Midwest businessmen-were kicking up a mild and happy uproar when the train pulled out. They were the boys of Harry Truman's old Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F., on their way to Washington for the big show...
Harder Selling. Few businessmen were worried. They did not think that the economy would bog down because of a few soft spots as long as the basic industries were humming. Example: steel mills, operating at capacity for the second week in a row, turned out 1,845,000 tons...
...justified the move as a means of assimilating foreigners into the national life, and of helping to stop the drain on foreign exchange. But to Argentina's large (40,000) and tweedy British colony, and to its small, compact contingent of North American businessmen, the proposal was an unmistakable slap...
...Trial, Author Franz Kafka tells of the ordeal of an accused man who is never told the charges on which he is being tried. For the past 8½ months, many U.S. businessmen have felt somewhat the same. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the basing-point method of setting prices in cement (TIME, May 10) had been so vague that many businessmen were not sure what was and what wasn't legal. Last week, in answer to six questions from the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Federal Trade Commission took most...
...said it was not concerned with pricing methods, but only with possible conspiracies to fix prices. Individual businessmen, it said, are free to compute their prices by using basing points, absorbing freight charges, or any other way they please, provided they do not use the system to conspire to fix prices illegally...