Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edwards Plateau, a sheep-and-cattle-grazing area the size of Maine, in south central Texas. Here, day by day, month by month, through five, six, even ten years, the drought has inexorably tightened its grip until economic survival has become a grim, ceaseless battle for ranchers and businessmen alike...
...Clarksburg the day after the Non-Partisan Association was formed. Said a West Virginian executive: "We sold out between 12:30 and 2 p.m. When the people of Clarksburg saw our papers on the street, they actually hugged the carrier boys." On the day of the mass meeting, Clarksburg businessmen bought 2,000 of the Fairmont papers, gave them away free. Since then the West Virginian and the Fairmont Times have been sending 1,000 papers a day to Clarksburg. But at week's end Publisher Highland had still taken no notice of the biggest story in his territory...
More than anything else, what finally made up FRB's mind was the spring flood of optimism, cheering reports of first-quarter earnings (see below), the big expansion plans of U.S. businessmen, the big spending plans of the U.S. consumer. Retail trade for March, said the Commerce Department, climbed 2% over February and 4% above March of last year. After a survey of economists and businessmen, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce predicted that consumer incomes will go up 3% to 5% this year, and that all of this $8 billion to $14 billion will be spent...
...prefer exposes to cautious but powerful press releases. In such a manner, criminal elements in unions would be faced with reprisals from the parent organization and with legal action from the government. But cooperation between government and labor must be accompanied by a determined stand on the part of businessmen to deal honestly with honest unions. "Stand up to the hoodlums!" advised New York Attorney General Jacob Javits. If business would refuse to pay kick-backs and more important, report attempted extortion to the authorities, a good part of the battle would be over...
...government made up of tired businessmen is not one to fan the flames of freedom and revolution in the world," he concluded...