Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aspiring businessmen will make many interesting sorties into Harvard Square and vicinity in an attempt to sell ads to local merchants. They will also learn many elements of business practice which will prove valuable after college...
...What this country needs is a good 5? burnoose and two Sauds in every pot. Do you think a band of small businessmen, clad in their native costume (i.e., working clothes), could hit Generous John Foster for a small loan? If Saud can put his hand out, how about the plight of the small businessman? What with new taxes on trucks, new taxes on having over four employees, old taxes on telephones, travel, entertainment-just plain taxes ad nauseam. LOUISE BUCK ROBSHAM West Yarmouth, Mass...
...businessman has always been dependent on new ideas for survival and growth, but never has he been more determined in his search for new ways of doing things than today. To spur "creativity," businessmen will try anything, from the venerable suggestion box to such freewheeling idea-association techniques as "group thinks," "buzz sessions," "imagineering," and the most popular device of all, the "brainstorm." Originator of the brainstorm* is Alex F. Osborn of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, who defines it as a method in which groups of people "use their brains to storm a creative problem...
While solidly behind the objectives of brainstorming, many businessmen nevertheless see plenty of faults in the plan itself, think that it may be getting out of hand. They object to all the hoopla and gobbledygook about "creative ideation," "buzz sessions," "idearamas," "imagineering," etc. One thing they fear is that the emphasis on group thinking may produce the very regimentation it seeks to avoid. Another problem is the difficulty of screening out 59 or even 149 wildly impossible ideas to get to work on one good...
Another sign of easing is that bank loans and bank investments dropped by $2.3 billion in January, as businessmen lived off their inventories and postponed marginal expansion plans rather than borrow heavily at high interest rates. In addition, January also brought a sharper than seasonal liquidation of bank credit, in which heavy repayments of loans more than wiped out a big credit increase in December...