Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other party, had disrupted countless meetings with storms of vituperation and vegetables, and generally raised welts on the public weal, the experts had not taken young Pierre Poujade and his bray-voiced "antis" very seriously. But Poujade's bully-boy movement of shopkeepers, farmers, artisans and small businessmen won 52 seats...
Since Hong Kong and its trade-hungry businessmen take the official position that Communists as such are not bad or dangerous (the Hong Kong banking and trading concerns were in great part responsible for Britain's early recognition of the Peking regime), officials are circumspect about cracking down. Communists openly circulate their publications and run their businesses (the tallest building in Hong Kong, by 20 ft., is a Communist bank). Nevertheless, the police arrest and arraign and deport suspected Red troublemakers before a lawyer can say habeas corpus. The popular view among official and unofficial Hong Kong is that...
...spring of 1949, a group of businessmen, publishers, labor and community leaders, with little more in common than a deep concern over the plight of U.S. public education, issued a simple statement that was both obvious and all too true. "There isn't much of a problem," said the group, "concerning what must be done to improve the schools. The problem is to get people to do it." Last week, as the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools prepared to dissolve itself, it could justly claim that never before had so many Americans been so eager...
...future, businessmen were still expansion-minded. Despite an expected downturn in home construction, the Associated General Contractors of America forecast a new $60 billion record in construction of all kinds for 1956. With increasing steel shortages, two more companies-Sharon Steel and National Steel -announced upwards of $200 million in expansion plans to add another 1,320,000 tons of capacity. In aviation, National Airlines, which has already ordered six pure-jet Douglas DC-8s, took another step into the new air age with a $46 million order for 20 new 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprop transports...
...lavish giving was that high taxes make generosity an inexpensive proposition. The effect of taxes on charity was succinctly explained by New York Welfare Commissioner Henry L. McCarthy: "You have to spend money to save money." One of the best ways to do both, as an increasing number of businessmen and corporations are finding out, is to set up a charitable foundation or trust...