Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most businessmen felt that, barring a really disastrous steel strike, the second half would be as good as the first, and maybe better. Their outlook for all of 1959: a record year for both sales and profits...
Every U.S. businessman knows that espionage is as much a part of corporate competition as it is of international intrigue-but few have ever been willing to admit it. Now the businessmen, soothed by a promise of anonymity, have confessed all. To nine Harvard Business School graduate students, who polled 200 key U.S. companies and personally grilled 100 top corporate executives, they gave enough eye-opening information on industrial spying to fill a 77-page report...
...West Germany, businessmen fume at the flood of well-made Japanese binoculars, microscopes and cameras that not only crowd German products abroad but are making inroads at home. Steelmen in the Ruhr are disturbed at the recent appearance of competitively priced Japanese rolled steel in European markets. Premier Kishi will try to soothe ruffled feelings by pointing out that Japan buys more than twice as much from West Germany as it sells...
...still the powerful Baath socialists, who, though nominally outlawed like all parties, have been rewarded with five of 16 seats in the Syrian regional Cabinet for helping to put over the merger of the two countries. Last week, between the maneuverings of Nasser and the ganging up of landowners, businessmen and Moslem elders, who banded together in a conservative front, the Baath socialists lost control of Syria. Over both provinces Gamal Abdel Nasser reigned supreme...
Died. George Grosz, 65, artist who savagely satirized Germany's feverish society between the world wars, with a contorted line drew bloated military and businessmen and their writhing wire-thin victims, relied on his own vivid experience in World War I trenches to depict human beings oozing into animal-like forms under the pressures of war, derided the Nazis so devastatingly from the appearance of the first swastika that Hitler labeled him "Cultural Bolshevist No. 1 and featured him prominently in the 1937 Munich exhibition of degenerate art; of a heart attack; in Berlin. Grosz fled...