Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's end the U.S. will achieve "the highest level of employment and the lowest level of unemployment ever experienced in peacetime," predicted Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell to a gathering of New York businessmen last week...
...Average yearly rate since the 1870s: 3%. In their swelling stack of pamphlets, proponents of 5%-a-year growth do not argue the realism of their goal in hard economic terms. As authority for it, they point out that last spring a Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel, sprinkled with big businessmen, urged a 5% growth rate...
...When businessmen expect government to pursue inflationary policies, they are confident of their ability to pass on higher costs in higher prices, without loss of sales volume. They tend to become 'soft' bargainers and to make inflationary wage agreements...
Officially, Khrushchev was in Leipzig to attend the spring opening of the city's 800-year-old fair. The fair these days is a key meeting ground between Eastern Communists and Western businessmen. Rolling into a Town Hall luncheon with his familiar spraddle-footed gait, Khrushchev settled down at a table with three British M.P.s. "I didn't come here to talk politics," he began with a grin. "I represent business circles of the Soviet Union." That raised a laugh that brought reporters running. Thereupon, Laborite M.P. Ian Mikardo asked what might come of the proposed Foreign Ministers...
...Businessmen in the Harvard Square area are generally in favor of the University's proposed purchase of the MTA property on Boylston St., it was learned yesterday. No opposition was offered to the move from the 14 store owners and managers polled...