Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of Germany-was getting less sure by the hour that he wanted the job. In the Black Forest resort where he was taking the health cure (TIME, March 9), Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was confronted by laundry hampers full of mail. Thousands of letters and telegrams from small businessmen, farmers and labor leaders urged Erhard to resist all attempts to kick him upstairs...
...Belle got control of two small firms that made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
...meeting climaxed a winter of hopeless worry. With a school integration decision pending in federal district court, Atlantans were dead certain that the wool-hat state legislature's massive-resistance laws would lock all city schools next September. But HOPE took hold quickly; in three weeks businessmen were solicited for funds, and chapters were formed in Atlanta and seven other Georgia cities. At last week's rally Editor Meyer left no doubt that HOPE's members prefer at least token integration to locked schools. "This will be called surrender," he said. "I'm not afraid...
MUSICIANS make the best businessmen. I'd much rather be represented in a business deal by Stravinsky than any lawyer you could name." So says Goddard Lieberson, 47, the handsome, debonair president of Columbia Records. Lieberson ought to know. He is a musician (piano), composer (more than 100 pieces), novelist (Three for Bedroom C) and top-notch businessman. He has made Columbia the biggest seller of long-playing record albums (which now account for more than 70% of all records sold) and doubled its sales (now more than $50 million) since he took over as president...
...consumer goods could be stimulated, the result might be to produce pressures within the bloc, tending to divert resources from war potential to consumer goods." That would alsocompel the Red bloc to sell at home many of the consumer goods that it now exports in competition with Western businessmen...