Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's top industrialists. Seated around him were Gwilym A. Price, president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., Motion Picture Czar Eric Johnston, Arthur A. Frank, chairman of the board of Standard Railway Equipment Mfg. Co., and dozens of other high-powered and high-placed big businessmen...
...that I wanted to go there and buy a lot of Russian vodka, $2,000,000 worth, and sell it to the people in the U.S. I told them it wouldn't hurt Russia a bit." Two months ago Ed left for Europe with a bunch of Indianapolis businessmen on a tour sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and when he got to Helsinki, he decided to use his visa...
...problem, and got a bellyful of civilian gibes at Army red tape. Last week Old Soldier Somervell, now president of Koppers Co., told the Baltimore Association of Commerce of another kind of pain: he was fed up with the red tape and regulations which the Government has loaded onto businessmen...
...Averell Harriman was Secretary of Commerce he told me that I would be amazed at the number of so-called rugged industrialists, business leaders, who trooped to him to try to get the Department of Commerce to use its influence in their behalf against their competitors. If we, as businessmen, believe in reasonable liberty of action for management, we must not ourselves seek in private the things we decry in public...
...which had the laudable purpose of cutting down wind resistance in trains, cars, etc., became such a craze that it was even inflicted on such static objects as desk sets. Little by little the hardy, struggling band proved that their artistry could draw that prettiest curve of all to businessmen−an upward-sweeping sales curve...