Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of the New Deal revolution, businessmen had learned to be wary as alley cats. Even when they plied their trades unmolested, they knew that any time they carelessly stepped into the light they were apt to catch a flying epithet or get tripped into a bureaucratic deadfall. If it was not class warfare, it sometimes seemed a lot like...
Under the Socialists the standard of living was high, but small homeowners, businessmen and farmers complained because they could not sell their properties except at state-fixed prices. There was no unemployment or serious want, but wage and salary earners worked at income levels which smothered incentive: a ship's cook often earned more than a ship's captain; bus drivers, postmen and newspaper reporters got more or less the same pay. Taxes ate away people's earnings. Many imports, especially automobiles, were rationed, leaving popular demand unsatisfied. Thousands of young New Zealanders emigrated to find freer...
...Harvard Square Businessmen's Association is now an active organization with some 100 members. Represented in this number are most of the stores within the Square area as well as many of its professional men. The CRIMSON and the Alumni Bulletin are the only Harvard firms included...
...conquered Cleveland and he was anxious to move on. All through 1949, while the team played indifferent ball, talk of the sale of the Indians bubbled on a back burner. Last week Veeck sold his Indians for an estimated $2,200,000 to a group of Cleveland businessmen headed by Insurance Executive Ellis Ryan. The sum was about $1,000,900 more than Veeck and his partners had paid for the club. Said Bill Veeck, when asked what major-league city he was planning to invade next: "I'm not even worrying now about getting back into the baseball...
...Government spending had grown so loud that even the Administration seemed to be taking note. Last week Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was back at his desk in Washington after a swing around the country, in which he had dispensed thousands of soothing words into the ears of worried businessmen...