Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...network of trading firms, all using the institute's reputation to drum up business. So far, police investigators have turned up 100 Communist-run companies operating on the same line as-Murai's outfit. All will be charged with embezzlement, but with card-holding "businessmen" clamming up in every case, police doubt that they can bring the Communist Party itself to court for bagging all the boodle...
...problems are piling up on his agenda, and many of them are tied to Canada's relations with the U.S. To identify and examine such problems, the National Planning Association, a privately supported U.S. research agency, last week set up a committee of top-level U.S. and Canadian businessmen, educators and labor leaders for a thorough study. The committee is headed by Quaker Oats Co. Chairman Douglas Stuart, onetime (1953-56) U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Montreal Lawyer Robert Fowler, president of the Canadian Pulp & Paper Association. Among the likely points of focus for research...
Here and there appeared signs of a hesitation that could not help pleasing the Fed's Martin, who recommends reduced spending and increased savings as a check on inflation, even if it understandably fails to delight businessmen. Auto sales were not rising to Detroit's high expectations (though production rose last week), and gasoline sales were running behind seasonal expectations. The hoped-for upturn in home-building starts has failed to materialize...
...spate of good earnings reports so far in 1957 has made U.S. businessmen optimistic about the rest of the year. In a survey of 1,432 executives released last week by Dun & Bradstreet, more than 90% foresaw fourth-quarter sales either matching or exceeding last year's, and 89% predicted that net profits in the fourth quarter will also equal or top 1956's last quarter...
...many visiting American professors who have taught in Europe, few have had a more distinguished group of students than Economist Wayne M.c-Naughton of U.C.L.A. Attending his course on all-round American-style executivemanship at Madrid's School of Industrial Organization were some of Spain's most prominent businessmen and politicians, e.g., Lawyer Buenaventura Fernandez Crehuet, member of the Cortes, and Dr. Francisco Javier Fernandez Avila, brother of the director of the government's Industrial Productivity Commission. Though he had to work through an interpreter, McNaughton thought he was getting along just fine-until one day he decided...