Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of the Hitler-Stalin pact. One of the directors of Rome's Armenian Pontifical College insists that Armenians everywhere, Communist or antiCommunist, generally admire him as a "man with a head on his shoulders." Diplomats, defectors, Russian specialists in ten capitals from Bonn to Beirut, and Chicago businessmen who met Mikoyan on his 1936 U.S. trip-all were interviewed for the cover story; see FOREIGN NEWS, The Survivor...
...such magnitude as to support a belief that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as an entity, is 'dominated . . . by any corrupt influence.' " Later on, Hoffa talked away for a couple of hours about gamy revelations that he hung around with gangsters and took dubious loans from businessmen. Afterwards it was plain from committee members' hints that Jimmy had put up a feeble defense...
Despite these portents, businessmen will not be certain of a bigger-than-seasonal fourth-quarter pickup unless there is also a sharp rise in new orders to whittle down fat inventories. Inventories are now about $4 billion higher than at the same time last year; manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will...
Inflation Curb. West Germans themselves are less agreed on the merits of revaluation. Most German businessmen are against it because it would make German goods more costly in world markets. On the other hand, some economists feel that revaluation is necessary to curb inflationary pressures caused by the influx of money from West German industry's booming overseas operations-money that chases goods already in short supply precisely because of such heavy exports. Since revaluation would make the mark worth more in foreign currency, it would encourage imports, thus ease inflation...
...Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. (1930), Houston's Foley Bros. (1949), Dallas' Sanger Bros. (1951). Yet he was never so busy selling that he forgot the workers and society around him. Filene was a leading spirit of the New England Industrial Development Corp. to encourage small businessmen, pumped hard for better schools, wrote three books, was a founder of the American Arbitration Association and served the Government in setting up state job-insurance programs. "I like to tell people that just making money out of a city and its inhabitants isn't the only thing...