Word: businessmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...usual crowds of admirers and autograph hunters were missing when Billy landed at Moscow's airport. In his party: boyhood pal and associate Grady Wilson, his male secretary and two U.S. businessmen-Printing Tycoon William Jones of Los Angeles, who had persuaded Graham to take the trip, and Charlotte (N.C.) Department Store Owner Henderson Belk, who was taking Bible instruction from Billy en route. Sightseeing with American reporters and an Intourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said...
...even sell one to the military. How's that for influence?" When it comes to pressuring for contracts, he charged that the real big leaguers are in Congress itself. "Every time some Congressman wants a contract for a hometown favorite, the Pentagon is supposed to jump." Businessmen noted that Representative Santangelo himself complained that New York was not getting its fair share of contracts; the West Coast was getting all the gravy...
Bitter Medicine. The time for drastic remedies had come. Last week Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres, in a midnight four-hour speech to late-hour Barcelona businessmen, outlined a stern stabilization plan, obviously approved by Franco, that was almost exactly what foreign economists have been trying to force upon Spain for the past ten years. Its proposals...
...economy was moving along so briskly last week that some businessmen were beginning to worry that there might be too much of a boom. Warned Manhattan's First National City Bank: "With the problems of recession behind them, businessmen will now need to be alert to the problems of prosperity-pressures on prices, temptation toward excesses of inventories or credit use, and the eroding of the efficiencies and cost reductions introduced during the recession...
With a fat second quarter about over, U.S. businessmen looked forward to an even more prosperous third. The National Association of Purchasing Agents, which keeps sensitive fingers on the economy's pulse through the men who buy for major U.S. businesses, reported that 42% of its members expect business to be better in the third quarter than in the second, and 58% believe that the year's second half will easily top the first half. Only 29% foresee a third-quarter decline...