Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 300 American, British, French, Belgian and other Western businessmen were told they must surrender a fourth of the houses they own in Jakarta...
...splashy newspaper advertisements, businessmen prudently lavished praise on Pérez Jiménez' substitute for free elections. The semiofficial press carried supplements as long as twelve pages crammed with nothing but the names of citizens expressing their "adhesion" to the government. The President ordered all businesses in booming Venezuela to pay out their compulsory Christmas bonuses ($60 million this year) before the election not after...
...Mountain Journal, after Editor and Publisher Eugene Sisto Cervi, the thriving $12-a-year Denver paper is a sassy, fact-crammed compendium of personals, local business transactions (including almost every new car sale in town) and well-honed gibes at such unlikely targets as the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen, Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News and the powerful Denver Post. Gene Cervi, 50, onetime Colorado State Democratic Chairman, and a graduate of both Denver dailies, of late has concentrated his fire on Republican Mayor Will F. Nicholson's hotly contested plan for a city payroll tax. Instead...
...graduates' committee, under the chairmanship of Henry J. Friendly '23, was appointed to raise the other $500,000. The committee has raised most of the money from businessmen and foundations, and hopes to complete the campaign within the next few months. Law School graduates were not contacted because the committee felt that alumni had been giving "constant assistance" to the School every year...
Home & Abroad. Sicilian businessmen learned to take full advantage of their country's natural resources. Sicily's position astride shipping routes turned the port of Palermo into the Mediterranean's busiest repair center, with 5,000 new workers. New irrigation and land-reclamation schemes are making agriculture a prime source of foreign exchange, with export sales of processed fruits and vegetables rising from almost nothing in 1946 to $37 million in 1955, some $48 million last year. Much of the new industry is homegrown, but much more comes from foreign businessmen and mainland Italians who know...