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...years, because the change will come mainly through the young people. Many of the fathers I know can't understand what has happened to their children. A friend of mine who is a very successful industrialist is still amazed by the fact that his son is turning into a brilliant theologian; just a short time ago, I talked to the 16-year-old boy whose father runs a chain of retail stores. Father wants me to go into his business, he said. I am the only child. But why should I waste my life in business? I want...
Price, a 56-year-old Pittsburgh lawyer-turned-banker-turned-industrialist, might well be called "Mr. Expansion." He has constantly proclaimed that U.S. industry needs tremendous growth to keep abreast of rising population, bigger incomes and greater consumer wants. He envisions "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...
This week, Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison rose in the House of Commons, announced what amounted to a triumph for Conciliator Harriman: the British government was prepared to send a new oil mission to Teheran, headed by Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes, hard-hitting Socialist industrialist and Minister of Raw Materials...
Congressman Burdick's contention was that farmer, factory worker, industrialist, consumer, are all in the same boat; inflation may wreck all of them. Hence, he was going to vote for the Administration's bill. Usher Burdick shouted at his colleagues: "What are you trying to do?" He shook his head, bellowed a parting shot: "Well, I will be damned if I know," and marched back to his seat...
...phony invoices, bribed or lax custom guards, intricate shipping techniques. On one occasion, 89 separate pieces of machinery were passed through West German custom guards; reassembled on the other side, they turned out to be a complete boiler factory. Other supplies move through "triangular trade"-a West German industrialist will ship a smelting plant, for example, to Belgium and from there it will be shipped to East Germany. In addition to this "legal" trade, the Communists are getting smuggled goods from West Germany at a rate which some estimate as high as $350 million a year...