Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...falling behind in the race to develop cheap, efficient nuclear power plants to help supply the world's growing need for electricity? After years of what Chairman Lewis L. Strauss considers "impressive progress," the Atomic Energy Commission is beset on all sides-especially by U.S. businessmen who fear, as one said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast the U.S. is traveling along the road to commercial nuclear power, see BUSINESS ESSAY...
Skulduggery & Gore. Besides reassuring foreigners. Larrazabal's speech sparked a warm reaction among Venezuelan businessmen. Every chamber of commerce in the country promptly pledged support. The Roman Catholic Church celebrated a special Requiem Mass for the more than 300 killed in the fighting. As Larrazabal capped his first week by announcing that elections for a constituent assembly will be held before the year is up, presidential elections six months later, investigators began rooting through the ruins of Pérez Jiménez' tumbled empire. Newspapers filled columns with gruesome stories of the dictator's sadistic security...
...Rasmussen of the University of Utah, summing up the group's sentiment: "The possibility of a recession of the more serious type appears to be much greater now than in 1949 or 1953-54," because pent-up demand has been filled. But there was no such agreement among businessmen themselves. The steel industry, in fact, is cautiously optimistic, feels that it has reached the bottom. Said Arthur B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel: "Sizing up all the factors, I've felt better about things in the last week. We see some signs already that may mean we will...
...grabbed power four years ago at 53, was touted as the man who could end his country's bloody backland guerrilla war; instead he cracked down on newspapers and political opponents, grabbed huge ranches at his own bargain prices. In May last year the military, clergy and businessmen turned on him, sent him on his way to exile in the Canary Islands...
TOLL TV TEST is arousing little interest. Only one firm, Philadelphia Broadcasting Co., has applied to FCC to try system, and deadline for bids is March 1. FCC Chairman Doerfer says that single test is not enough, and pay TV may never get started unless businessmen are willing to invest more...