Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plants, badly battered by U.S. wartime bombing and in dire need of spare parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...
...having the force of law, is the unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and accounted for last week's fiesta...
...Curse. For months, Sawyer had been making the chicken-a-la-king circuit of businessmen's luncheons, often talking "off the record," but to big crowds, of the need for reducing Government spending. He even ventured some tentative criticism of the Administration's Brannan Plan. Last week for all to hear, he briskly announced: "The President has requested me to take the lead in designing a program to preserve and strengthen free enterprise...
...they also exhibited a sign of rare self-examination. They had invited as their guests 49 students, 32 college professors and school administrators from all over the U.S. From the younger generation N.A.M. hoped to get a new and fresh answer to the perennial question of N.A.M. and businessmen in general: How are we doing...
Then Brookings Institution's president, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, pointed up the responsibilities of businessmen and their government...