Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high finance and high office. Through the Fairmont Hotel's marble-pillared lobby trooped old-line cartel capitalists and socialist bureaucrats, Japanese financial shoguns and silk-clad Burmese magnates. From London came financiers whose firms had bankrolled the Industrial Revolution; from Berlin, the brisk businessmen who have built Europe's sturdiest economy from the rubble of war. Fiat's Managing Director Vittorio Valleta flew in from Turin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany from Washington, Banker G. D. Birla from India. Biggest delegation was a 202-man phalanx of U.S. executives spanning the economy from Ritz...
...conversations, in round-table talks, or at conference sessions, business and government leaders discussed the opportunities, fears and responsibilities of free enterprise in advancing backward economies. By the very fact of their meeting they gave dynamic new impetus to capitalism and proved that the areas of agreement between the businessmen of the highly industrialized and the underdeveloped nations of the world are far greater than the more publicized disagreements. By the time they headed back across the world, they had generated new enthusiasm for the task of raising living standards everywhere, a task that often has seemed to defy...
Bankers and businessmen ticked off the practical problems of tapping new resources in a world already pinched for capital and squeezed by inflation. Managers warned that trained consultants and technicians were in critically short supply. Westerners emphasized the need to protect investors in new lands seething with nationalism. Asians warned that impatient peoples cannot depend on private capital alone to finance the basic developments of industrial society (see Paths of Progress...
Turning to the free world's businessmen, Black urged: "Your responsibility is a heavy one, for if the private entrepreneur does not come forward when he is given a fair chance, governments will act−and who can then blame them...
...world-minded businessmen, apprehensive over a U.S. drift to protectionism, Nixon's proposals were a heartening reaffirmation of official intent to work for freer trade, a vital contribution to economic betterment of under-developed nations. In conference rooms and hotel corridors, businessmen vigorously debated a host of other issues that ranged from new investment incentives (see New Ideas for Investment) to German Banker Herman Abs's call for a Magna Carta of investors' rights (see The Capitalist Magna Carta...