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Word: businessmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partner, a stunning redhead in black tights, whirls her over his head on one arm, hurls her dramatically in a split-legged fall to the floor. The dance team is Nicholas Darvas and his half-sister, Julia, one of the top acts in the U.S. What the tired businessmen watching the show do not realize is that Hungarian-born Nicholas Darvas, 39, is a better moneyman than most of them; he is a top'stock-market speculator who has parlayed his considerable weekly income ($3,500 currently) into a fortune of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pas de Dough | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...wagging an avuncular finger, Jacobsson said that with the fall of exports and loss of gold, the businessmen of the U.S. might well take stock of their competitive position, read a "warning about the trend of costs and prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Losing Gold | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

There is a growing feeling at Treasury and at the Federal Reserve Board that the 4¼% limit will have to be raised by Congress, even though economists and businessmen worry that raising the rate would cause a general rise in long-term rates and tighten money enough to choke off gains in business. Finding a solution to the Treasury's problems cannot wait much longer. In July the Treasury will have to borrow additional billions. A sudden sharp contraction in the stock market might conceivably cause a shift back into bonds, but nobody regards that as a real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bonded Trouble | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...breed of socially conscious U.S. executives, Charles Harting Percy, youthful (39) president of Chicago's camera making Bell & Howell Co., is perhaps the most fervent preacher of the thesis that "the responsibility of business goes beyond making products for a profit." Businessmen are also obliged, says Percy, to serve society. While running Bell & Howell, the world's biggest producer of motion-picture equipment (1958 sales: $59 million), cleft-chinned Chuck Percy has found plenty of time to serve society. He sits on the board of the University of Chicago ("I am a better businessman for getting my head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Platform Writer's Platform | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...folk songs. Jewish businessmen, leaving Rotarian lunches with their gentile colleagues, are offended by the sight of a shambling, stoop-shouldered old man with a Judaic beard and earlocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If I Forget Thee .. . | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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