Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bans the union shop (by forbidding employers to fire any worker for refusing to join a union). More significant, as a sign of how U.S.-style enlightened capitalism looks at labor-management relations, was the unpublicized opposition, while the measure was in the legislative mill, of several Indiana big businessmen. Among them: executives of Radio Corp. of America, Seagrams (liquor), the Allison Division (turbojet engines) of General Motors, and Cummins Engine, which manufactures half the diesel engines that propel U.S. trucks...
...business-minded Administration and a business-minded Congress in Washington. It seemed like a good time to take a rest. But what happened?" Last week in Detroit a "legislative clinic" under Coleman's direction wound up a twelve-city tour designed to convince U.S. businessmen that what happened decidedly does not call for a rest. Disappointed by the Eisenhower Administration's big budget and its failure to cut corporate taxes, federal spending and Government services, the chamber has been slugging away at Eisenhower economic policies, urging large audiences to bring pressure on their Congressmen. In each city...
While crying for Government economy, businessmen are generally careful not to single out federal programs that might affect themselves. When the Chamber of Commerce met in Dallas, for example, the assembled businessmen went on record against high federal spending on the same day the newspapers carried a statement by the president of the Dallas chamber criticizing the General Services Administration for canceling its lease-purchase program to build a $24 million federal office building in Dallas...
Strawberries & Industry. Such intensified efforts have created an atmosphere in which citizens and businessmen's groups across Arkansas are putting their shoulders to the task of attracting new industry. The result has had a startling impact on the state's economy. The sleepy little town of Searcy in central Arkansas, which once lived off strawberries and cotton, has already been transformed by the prospect of four new plants worth nearly $5,000,000 (two already built), and its population has doubled to 7,000. In 1956 alone, 12,521 new jobs were created in Arkansas, 194 industries either...
From the interviews not only with Castro but with dozens of students, U.S. businessmen and politicians, Matthews concluded that...