Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many businessmen came to like good old Dave. To honor Beck's election as the Teamsters' president, more than 600 Seattle business leaders gathered in the Olympic Hotel in December 1952. Co-chairmen were the publishers of the Seattle Times and of the Post-Intelligencer. Master of ceremonies was Brewer Emil Sick, chief beneficiary of the Beck-directed union war of the 1930s, when Beck permitted "not a single goddam drop" of Brewery Workers Union beer to enter the Northwest from California or the East. Cried Sick: "We respect you as a labor leader-the greatest...
...NEVER say a good word about my secretary outside the office," says a Chicago lawyer. "If I did, somebody else would have her on his payroll tomorrow." To many U.S. businessmen such caution is normal. Though a record 21 million U.S. women are working, only about 2 million hold secretarial jobs-and only a small percentage are genuine secretaries. As prosperity piles up the paperwork, the shortage becomes more severe; some 250,000 secretarial jobs go begging every day. "We just need bodies," moans a Midwest employment agent. "There haven't been enough secretaries, or even file clerks...
...businessmen weighed the evidence last week, took note of the countermoving inflationary and deflationary forces, few saw any reason for pessimism about 1957's business prospects. Some predictions: ¶ Borg-Warner Chairman Roy Ingersoll, who is spending $26 million for expansion this year: "We have good reason to anticipate improvement in 1957 in many of the industries which Borg-Warner serves. Sales are on the upcurve in automotive and farm-equipment parts, chemicals, aviation components and oilfield tools." ¶General Shoe Corp. Chairman W. Maxey Jarman: "People are buying freely. Employment is good. Retail business will definitely...
...others. He aims to brake the factory-building fling, concentrate instead on developing raw materials. To conserve the current supply of basic metals and coal, he wants to set up procurement priorities that would give the first choice to heavy industry. In hope of winning the support of businessmen, Villalbi has even promised that they will get a toe hold in the basic industries owned or controlled by the government...
...progress toward economic freedom is likely to be slow, is already being fought by Minister of Industry Joaquin Planell Riera, who runs the state-owned industries. At first the government may give private businessmen a share in its consumer-goods and service industries, such as textile plants and the Iberia Air Lines, while holding fast to shipyards, auto plants, utilities and oil refineries...