Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should wait and see what's what," another owner moaned. "Hair tonic, shaving cream, and the rent will go up next." A co-owner of La Flamme Shop said that he had a "clientele of doctors, lawyers, and businessmen for 15 or 25 years. I feel sorry for them; they are friends, not customers." His partner echoed, "He's right...
...days of the 1949 airlift, Socialist Willy Brandt had come to tighten that mutual reliance between Americans and Berliners. His method, beyond talks with President Eisenhower and other Washington brass: a Meet the Press TV appearance, a banquet hosted by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, luncheons with New York businessmen, press conference and dinner in Los Angeles (whence he flies on around the world). In the growing tradition of nondiplomat diplomacy, Mayor Brandt came not at the invitation of the U.S. Government but to be feature speaker this week at the Springfield, Ill. celebration of Republican Abraham Lincoln...
...said, "to settle our fate without France or against France." But De Gaulle at first was quite willing to carry on without Guinea. Paris announced that all French functionaries would be withdrawn within two months. Toure's brash reply: Remove them in eight days. While French shopkeepers and businessmen stayed on, 350 officials and their families began moving out. French justice stopped. A ship heading for Guinea with a carload of rice went to the Ivory Coast instead. Radio Conakry temporarily went off the air. The Guineans charged that the departing French were taking everything-medical supplies, official records...
...Businessmen would also like to see a more realistic depreciation policy. U.S. Steel estimates that between 1940 and 1956 the difference between depreciation allowances and the actual replacement cost of equipment was $904 million...
From such facts Martin and other experts argue that the best way to expand is to improve the economic climate, so that businessmen will have the incentive to accomplish greater growth themselves. They want to work toward a balanced budget, not merely for the symmetrical sake of balance itself, but in order to cut taxes as an encouragement to both business and consumers. Even the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Ruttenberg admits that tax cuts "worked" when the Administration chopped taxes $7.5 billion in 1954: the next year's growth was 8%. How to cut taxes and still maintain vitally...