Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bills promptly enough to earn a special commission. As a result, the purchasing agency was abolished. Also, a Harvard Square photographer complained about a proposed HSA photo agency. The HSA dropped plans for this new agency immediately, rather than incurring possible ill-feeling with the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association...
...small-scale experiment with a self-service store in Milan in 1949). But after Romans stampeded the big U.S. supermarket set up under the direction of Grand Union's President Lansing P. Shield at an international food congress in Rome in 1956, enterprising Italians and American businessmen decided the time had come to improve on Trajan...
...University of Rochester psychiatrist-internist team studied 42 average semiprivate patients at Strong Memorial Hospital. They were selected only on the basis of age (18 to 45) and because they happened to be in the hospital at the time. Included were housewives, businessmen, teachers, laborers, with ailments ranging from bronchitis to brain tumors. Purpose: to see if their illnesses were preceded by any loss in vital personal relationships, any emotions of "separation" (real, threatened or symbolic...
...flood of nontourists saturated the town. The Second United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (full title) which started last week, is probably the biggest scientific confab ever. Besides the 5,000 scientists from 67 countries, and 900 accredited correspondents, came uncounted thousands of atomic businessmen, many with wives or camp followers. Geneva has 6,500 hotel beds, but it was so jammed that some of the delegates were forced to bunk in Evian, France, 60 miles away...
...case in point was Ireland, whose tidy markets Ottawa's Foreign Trade Service hopes to improve with a booklet for businessmen pointing out Ireland's liberal tariff and import policies for Canadian products-aluminum, wheat, lumber, newsprint, hides. The main problem is that Canada fails to reciprocate. Wrote the Toronto Telegram's Financial Editor Devon Smith: ''Ireland is another of those countries which Canada treats in as offhand a manner as Canadians claim the Americans treat ourselves...