Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testimony given before a state legislative committee yesterday State Senator Philip A. Graham named Pusey as one of 23 incorporators who would elect the corporation's first board of directors. The list, headed by Governor Christian A. Herter '15, includes educational leaders, businessmen, and politicians...
Other merchants echoed his woe in the sharp decline of French imports. In the villages outside the city the French army auctioned off its surplus to local businessmen, while Vietnamese shopkeepers eyed the stores and stalls of their French counterparts and waited patiently for them to go broke. "We can wait," they told the French, who rejected their absurdly low offers. "Your price will drop...
Though U.S. businessmen were shaken by President Eisenhower's heart attack last September, it actually made little difference in their corporate planning. They had based plant expansions and product additions not on politics but on a growing population, an expanding economy, a rising standard of living. Republic Steel, for example, reviewed growth plans after the cardiac break, but changed nothing...
...last few weeks before Ike's announcement, businessmen became confident that he would indeed say yes. Thus, when the final decision came last week, the news had already been discounted, and it caused little stir in the business world. The only flurry was in Wall Street, where small investors bought heavily. At week's end the Dow Jones industrial average broke through all previous records to a new alltime high...
Many planemakers think that the board's methods for determining a fair profit are vague, sometimes unfair. While most businessmen gauge profits in relation to sales, the board puts heavy weight on a company's net worth, along with such other factors as character of the business, extent of assumed risk and subcontracts, and inventive contribution. Even the Hebert committee recognizes that the renegotiation law is too vague...