Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the stainless steel, leatherette and Formica of coffee shops in Manhattan's Radio City, balding businessmen and their wives from Wichita or Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where...
While many businessmen will talk willingly with the rare newspaperman who comes around, they know they do not have to: most business sections will uncritically print all the company handouts that fit (sometimes even tacking on a staffer's byline). Says an Atlanta businessman of his home-town papers: "They print our handouts like gospel. We could send them a monstrous lie, and they'd print it without question...
...Thai newspapers headlined the proposition, ideas poured in for everything from an opium den (rejected) to importing Linotypes (encouraged). Last week, when Graham reached India, where he offered to launch five more borrowers, the influential Times of India printed his picture on the front page. Scores of young businessmen who missed him in Calcutta pursued him to New Delhi, where his mailbox at the Imperial Hotel was jammed with 500 loan applications before he arrived, and the telephone never stopped ringing...
Though the socialist-minded Indian government viewed Graham with undisguised distaste, coolly turned down his suggestion for a five-year tax moratorium on small new businesses, a dozen prominent private Indian businessmen eagerly offered to co-invest some $140,000. The Punjab National Bank offered to investigate loan candidates free of charge, promised to consider later loan requests from Graham selectees...
...Departments, at President Eisenhower's orders, selected 54 counties and three multi-county areas in the Southeast, Southwest, New England, along the Ohio River valley and in the Great Lakes area as laboratories in which to test a new idea. The big idea: to encourage local farm leaders, businessmen, clergymen and others to take over and work out their own farm-improvement plans, tailored to their own needs, with technical and loan assistance supplied by their state and the Federal Government...