Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saluting them for making a particularly good sale, urging them on to greater success. Other firms are giving the kids whistles and the wives signs intended to get Pop out to sell, sell, sell. The story of the wonderful (and woeful) things that are happening to salesmen as businessmen attack the recession is told in BUSINESS, Spur for the Front Lines...
...bigger the business, the better it has resisted the recession. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission reported last week that in 1958's first quarter, small businessmen suffered the worst profits pinch. For manufacturers, the annual rate of after-tax profit to stockholders' equity...
...before the House Ways and Means Committee for renewal this year. In its role as examiner-and judge-of thousands of defense contractors annually, the Government's Renegotiation Board since 1952 has ruled that the suppliers have made some $700 million in "excessive profits." In doing so, say businessmen, it has seriously hampered effective procurement and demoralized large segments of vital industry...
...mood of U.S. business last week was: "Wait for fall." Most businessmen felt that the slide was ended, but few looked for any immediate big pickup in the face of the usual summer shutdowns...
Chance for Small Business. The industry is still so new-and there are so many aerosol products yet to be developed-that many small businessmen are pouring into the field. For example, an Australian shepherd wrote to Du Pont about the problem of marking sheep to determine which ones had been vaccinated. So Du Pont developed an aerosol marker. Several hundred shepherds wrote the company to praise the new product, and now one of them plans to market the sheep...