Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working with an initial grant of $25,000, the group will soon send out questionnaires to 5000 businessmen throughout the country who have worked for the Government, who have declined to work for the Government, who are currently working for the Government, and who have never been asked by Washington to take a job. Among the purposes of the project, according to its executive director Louis A. Traxel, is to find ways to encourage American businessmen to serve the Government...
...East. They count, for example, on some spotty strength along the Harrimans' Union Pacific Railroad. They think Harriman has a two-way appeal. Says a partisan: "Because of his liberal record, he stands well with labor; because he's a businessman, the really big businessmen know that he's no crackpot...
...fast is the U.S. boom growing? Much faster than most businessmen think, Ford Motor Co. Board Chairman Ernest R. Breech told the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce last week. "The big boom we have all been anticipating for the early 1960's is no longer a distant dream. We have no choice but to prepare for a major breakthrough into a new and much higher plateau of production and consumption...
Last week the Government career of Peter Strobel seemed to be drawing to an end after three days of hearings before Representative Emanuel Celler's House Judiciary subcommittee, which is probing possible conflict of interest of businessmen in Government...
...deals between U.S. businessmen, few have proved more complex or mysterious than the $20 million New York Central stock deal that Texas Millionaires Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson made with Robert R. Young last year. With the help of a $7,500,000 loan from Young's Alleghany Corp., the two Texas wheeler-dealers bought 800,000 shares of Central stock, then voted them to help Young win his proxy fight to take over the railroad (TIME, June 21, 1954). Last week, in a New York Supreme Court hearing brought by disgruntled Alleghany .stockholders on a charge that...