Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started in 1858 because it was not satisfied with the quality or cost of commercial coffee. It will put on a stand-by basis the Boston Ropewalk, a cordage factory it opened in 1834 because good rope was not available commercially. The Air Force is now contracting with private businessmen for 50% of all maintenance of engines, radios, etc., v. 21% in 1952. Government motor pools are being dried up; in San Antonio the Fourth Army has started using public taxis and buses for most official business trips...
...General Services Administration has found new ways to handle its chores with the aid of private businessmen. Suppliers now deliver fuel oil and coal directly to users instead of to Government dumps, thereby eliminating extra freight and handling charges. GSA also hired commercial truckers to distribute supplies from central depots to scattered Federal agencies, found it worked so well that it is now using them in more than half the nation. To help the Government sell a $90 million chunk of its surplus real estate, GSA called in private brokers to find clients and to close sales. Elsewhere, the Government...
...shutting down the Ropewalk, on the grounds that it is necessary to the "national interest." In the huge, amorphous layers of Government, not even the experts can calculate how much money has been saved to date by the get-out-of-business campaign. But the most encouraging thing to businessmen is less the money savings than the fact that the longtime trend to get the Government into business has finally been reversed...
...economic problems. There are still an estimated 2,000,000 unemployed in a work force of 20 million. Agriculture is still largely backward, and industry suffers from lack of capital and from a feudal fiscal system, in which varying and discriminatory interest rates make it difficult for small businessmen to operate. The textile industry, which has seen many of its markets disappear behind the Iron Curtain, is in bad shape, last year slumped to 117 on the national production index (1938 = 100), compared to 180 for industry as a whole. Such big tax-supported state monopolies as Institute...
Even in the chronically depressed southern half of Italy's boot, businessmen are pouring capital into new plants, offices and stores. Last week Olivetti (office machines) opened an adding-machine plant (capacity: 50,000 machines a year) just south of Naples, with free clinics and nurseries for its workers' use. Five other big firms have traveled south in the past year. The results are striking. In 1954 electricity consumption in the Italian south was up by 43.5%, radio sales by 15.5%, car sales by 42.6%, tractors by 35.6%. Said Italy's Banca Commerciale in its annual report...