Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjected the government to an unbearable political gibe that Britain was simply being a "lackey" to Washington. Said one government official: "We cannot persuade our people that China is a greater danger in the world than Russia- especially after the events in Hungary. We just cannot explain to British businessmen any longer why they can sell jeeps or tractors or even a tire factory to the Russians but not to the Chinese...
...Fund for Adult Education (director: C. Scott Fletcher) runs a major campaign to give adults a chance at liberal education. Among other things, it has spent $10 million on educational TV, started thousands of Americans on the Great Books trail, financed part-time liberal-arts courses for businessmen, now hopes to get 12 to 15 universities to set up adult liberal-arts programs...
...What You Can. While its satellites go their way, the foundation goes about its own business of dispensing millions from its hushed, grey-carpeted headquarters in a sleek new office building on Madison Avenue. There a staff of 20 educators, 17 former government workers, twelve former businessmen, eight journalists and two lawyers pore over projects with an earnest and refreshingly optimistic determination to do what they can for the world. These projects can emerge in various ways-from a casual conversation at a cocktail party, from a request by some scholar or university, or from some great scheme cooked...
...Some businessmen believe that what and where a worker eats is his own affair. They say that company lunch programs are paternalistic, that it is good for employees to get away from the job briefly, that dining rooms and cafeterias waste company capital and space-to say nothing of the headaches they bring. But as industry decentralizes to rural areas, restaurants for workers are few and, far between. In crowded cities, where drugstore counters are jammed and restaurant food is either poor or expensive, the problem is just...
...started fighting, to send his opponents reeling. To some, the prospect of changing many minds on foreign aid ("the global dole") looked equally gloomy. Only one day before last week's speech, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, ranking Republican on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, told a businessmen's cut-that-budget rally in Chicago that he was "fed up with global do-gooders who want to see us spend the hard-earned tax dollars of American citizens in the support of a worldwide welfare state." At his elbow Virginia's Harry Byrd, the Mr. Economy...