Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Businessmen's Lunch. Purring through the crowd was the official Old Monarch himself, 79-year-old Melvin Jones, the man who, as some say, "got the ball rolling" in 1917, when he turned his Chicago businessmen's luncheon club into the founding chapter of Lionism, then quit selling insurance to spend the rest of his life organizing clubs. In those days the luncheon club was primarily a meeting place for businessmen who wanted to meet businessmen. Rotary's pin was reserved for the town's leading man in each line of business; second-ranking Kiwanis, later...
...months European businessmen congratulated themselves on how sturdily their economies were weathering the sharpest U.S. recession since World War II. Now there are signs that Europeans themselves have something to be concerned about. By last week talk of a downturn in European business, hushed when Europe's boom refused to bust even during the U.S.'s greyest months, broke out in loud tones. In Rome, officials of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the price bottom might drop out of Europe's agricultural market this fall, and in London Britain's cautious...
...thoughtful businessmen want to do away with renegotiation entirely. Rather, they would like to see the act amended to exempt incentive contracts and to make it mandatory to show contractors all data and information used as a basis for determining excessive profits. With such amendments, business might be able to live with the Renegotiation...
...million worth of property, in 1957 sold $28 million worth-and made $2,250,000 in fees. Last week Previews' president, white-haired John Colquhoun Tysen, 45, was off on an annual world tour to sew up new deals with pashas and parvenus, unemployed royalty and hard-headed businessmen...
...embargo is being eased in response to increasingly heavy pressure from European, Japanese and even many U.S. businessmen for more trade with the Communists. The U.S. itself wants to encourage trade with certain satellites, notably Poland, to try to pry them from the Soviet economic orbit. Furthermore, the U.S. no longer believes that the embargo is hampering the Soviet economy, because in many fields the Reds' technology is roughly on a par with the West...