Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of saying "Good morning," Japanese businessmen in Osaka traditionally say "Moh-kari-makka?" (Are you making any money?) Only a year ago, the answer was a doleful no. The cutback in U.S. procurement following the Korean peace had demoralized dollar-happy industrialists and spotted Japanese headlines with the word fukeiki (depression). But last week the same businessmen, answering the traditional question, beamed a confident yes. ¶ Industrial production was up 13% over 1954, some 85% above...
There was an orderly meeting of solid Mississippi citizens in Jackson (pop. 117,000) one day last week. Present in the city auditorium were 2,000 planters and small businessmen, 40 state legislators, Congressman John Bell Williams and Governor Hugh White. They were well-dressed people of the sort found at Rotary meetings or dancing at the country club. This was the first statewide meeting of the Mississippi Association of Citizens' Councils. They were addressed by U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland. His subject: school desegregation. Said...
...less than ten years, the CBS cameramen were able to examine in microcosm many of the educational growing pains that are racking the nation. Because the county was arguing whether or not to pass a $7,000,000 bond issue, Murrow caught arguments at white heat: from farmers and businessmen against the bond issue ("Let's cut out the educational frills . . .") to the equally eloquent clergymen, parents and students on the other side ("If we've got to choose between schools and new cars or washing machines, let's choose schools...
Free traders among U.S. businessmen are well aware that there are many areas where U.S. tariffs are still too high and should be chopped back...
MANY foreign businessmen like to protest that their success or failure hinges on fluctuations in U.S. tariffs; e.g., when the U.S. boosted bicycle tariffs British businessmen forecast dire effects for their industry. Yet few of them look to see where their own countries stand on tariffs. There is strong evidence that while the U.S. has been steadily reducing tariffs, many other nations have been dragging their feet. Example: after the U.S. cut duties on cotton goods up to 50%, Japanese imports doubled; they poured in so fast that Japan last week clamped on an embargo for fear of U.S. reprisals...