We have a wonderful sizzle," said a New York manufacturer at an American Management Association conference in Manhattan last week.
"What we want is more steak." The demands of some 4,000,000 other small operators for a bigger share of the nation's business are being pushed by twelve congressional committees and Government agencies, dozens of politicians and economists, who argue that the welfare of small companies is a key condition for prosperity. To them, the newest figures on small business are cause for some alarm. Business failures in 1956 are at the highest level...