Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capacity of our economy." And beyond that, with an annual population growth of three million, the U.S. will also have to meet higher costs in federal aid to health, education, water resources development, highway construction, urban renewal programs. He would, he promised, soon convene a committee of educators, businessmen, labor leaders and professional men to make a new study of new "national objectives"-which presumably could be pursued by private as well as Government effort. The common denominator of cold-war defense and domestic growth: fiscal integrity. ''Thrift is one of the characteristics that has made this nation...
Anastas Mikoyan radiated respectability. He glowed good will to all men (see below). He probed his duly relaxed U.S. audiences to determine resistance to precise elements of Communist foreign policy-"Ban on nuclear tests," "China does exist," "If Soviet-American businessmen trade, the politicians will have to follow." On a commercial DC-4 tourist flight over the Great Lakes, a TIME correspondent noted that he sat back while the Kremlin's Ambassador to Washington Menshikov (TIME. Feb. 24) translated a New York Times report on how he was wowing the Americans-"A positive impact...
...talks with U.S. businessmen that Mikoyan worked hardest to sell his theme. Weaving wit with bluntness that sometimes bordered on confession ("Solomon would probably split the blame for the cold war down the mid dle"), he entranced his listeners. He heaped praise on American business, chirped, with a twinkle, that Ford and General Motors enjoy just the same kind of peaceful coexistence that Russia wants with...
...enormous social security fund (current reserves: $22 billion) really secure between the time the wage earner is nibbled and the time he begins to get his payments? Yes, reported a Congress-created advisory council on social security financing, a panel of 13 businessmen, labor leaders, university professors and insurance actuaries. Their summary: the financing of the Old Age and Survivors' Insurance system is "sound, practical and appropriate...
...seen again; but the Minister of the Interior received a letter in which Joanovici "regretfully announced" that "I am not able to earn enough money to reimburse the state . . . therefore I am compelled to leave France." Days after his departure, the police unearthed a vast financial scandal: groups of businessmen had looted a billion francs from the treasury by obtaining tax rebates on nonexistent metals and other goods. Said the chief accused, one Pierre Bercque: "I was just a cog in the machine. The real boss of our outfit was Joanovici...