Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood unconsciously proves its point: Jett Rink cannot exist in America--he is not sure of himself, he has strange ways, he is not open. So Hollywood must wash him out. But the film's treatment of Jett is no worse than America's. America would marry Jett Rink, absorb him (and his money)--until he was domesticated and merely nouveau riche...
...history," says Bernard A. Chapman, general manager of American Motors Corp. Appliance Division (Kelvinator). Although sales are big, production capacity is much bigger. Said the vice president of another appliance maker: "The U.S. has enough appliance producers to make two or three times the amount the market can absorb." Complained a small appliance maker from Chicago: "The little guy has two choices: drop out or sell to the big fellow...
...question is whether the economy will be able to absorb the greater flow of goods at constantly increasing prices. Overall, the U.S. will increase its productive capacity by about 4% this year, while consumer purchasing power as measured by disposable income (a record $284.9 billion annual rate) will probably also climb 4%. Nevertheless, some individual industries seem to be expanding beyond their short-term market potentials. All manufacturing industries, for example, will add 8% to their capacity this year, a rate that some economists think is well above their expected average annual increase in sales in the next several years...
...economists question the fact that the U.S. economy is on basically stable ground, or that the ballooning U.S. population will eventually absorb all the goods-and more-that industry can produce. Yet there is a very real concern that U.S. business, its eyes firmly fixed on the long term, will not see or accept the short-run dangers of an inflationary spiral that could seriously cripple the economy...
Republican economic theory allows for no measures strong or direct enough to create industrial jobs for these unemployed. Jobs must be created not only to absorb farmers, but also to attract them. In this context, Stevenson has advocated long range-range Federal aid and development in depressed areas, which would certainly be a partial solution. He has, in addition, envisioned wide scale development of small industries in non-urban areas. While he did not mention this idea in reference to the farm problem, Stevenson has the insight and the imagination to make the application...