Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British businessmen returning from the Soviet Union during the past two years with their pockets bulging with trade orders have given glowing reports of the friendly attitude of Soviet business bigwigs, particularly Trade Minister Anastas Mikoyan. Last week a Soviet trade delegation arrived in Britain wearing the new, or post-Malenkov, hard-hat look. They wanted to cancel or modify earlier orders for consumer capital goods. Estimated value of cancellations (mostly for textile and shoemaking machinery) to date...
...challenge for U.S. capital (which already adds up to a fat $6 billion in Latin America) is to build the plants to supply this expanding market. As a hint of the high earnings that are possible, Grace cited the interest on commercial bank loans that businessmen in Latin America are willing and able to pay: Brazil, 9%-12%; Peru, 9%-10%; Mexico 9½% (v. an average 3% in the U.S.). And he neatly disposed of the standard objections to investing in Latin America...
...little if there are holes in the ground." Later, after graduating from two different schools for the blind, Genevieve became fascinated by what she had heard about Asia, decided to learn Japanese and then take a degree at Columbia University's Teachers College. She taught English to Japanese businessmen in Manhattan, finally set out for Tokyo. There, while teaching at a boys' school, she first heard about the deplorable conditions in Thailand...
...Automatic Factory. Businessmen already envision a day when the brains will be used not only for paperwork problems, but to operate factories, to run auto production lines or any plant where a process can be reduced to a preset, repetitive system. Swiftly and obediently, the big robot will start and stop production lines, supervise all the machines, correct faulty workmanship, inspect the finished product, package it and ship it out to U.S. consumers...
...offices. There, automation has made its greatest strides, helped along by dozens of whirring, clicking machines. Yet the number of office workers has actually risen from 5,100,000 to 8,100,000 in the last ten years. Only the new machines have made it possible for U.S. businessmen to keep up with the increasing flood of paper work. There are automatic time clocks, electric typewriters, card punchers, sorters, analyzers, tabulating machines and accounting machines. They do everything from keeping records to servicing bank accounts and writing checks. The U.S. Government alone uses 23,150 tabulating machines (more than...