Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only indications that this was a special evening were the novelty of a hierarchical list of patrons which appeared along with some excellent notes by Assistant Professor Allen D. Sapp in the program; and a dance (music by Marshard) which followed the concert. As for the concert itself--it was just another concert, and not the best of the year, for that matter...
Footnote to History. The germ of Inside Europe was planted in Gunther by Harper's Editor Cass Canfield after IQSI'S Washington Merry-Go-Round, by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, created a demand for uninhibited political reporting. In 1934 Gunther reluctantly agreed that he might do a book on Europe's political leaders if Harper's put up what he considered an "impossible" $5,000 advance. He got the advance, slaved over the book at night while working in the Daily News's London bureau. With help, as he acknowledged, from "colleagues...
...Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Observatory, backed his co-lecturer of Natural Sciences 9, claiming that students' "lack of adequate training in mathematics was appalling" and that many "blush at the sight of a logarithm...
...first rule for any growing economy, said President Allen, is a stable overall price structure based on supply and demand. "If prices are free to reflect changes in consumer demand, increases in some items will be offset by decreases in others. Few people seriously doubt that price stability is essential to economic growth. Yet there are those who infer that there is no connection between the two. One does not exist for long without the other. It is like asking whether the mother or the father is preferable in creating a family...
Labor unions, says Allen, "introduced undesirable rigidities into our cost structure" with the automatic cost-of-living hike that makes about 4,000,000 workers eligible for wage increases in 1958. Employers in turn "accepted such rigidities so long as selling prices could be increased without reduction of markets." Now the situation has changed. "We have had several months of declining industrial production. And the decline in business volume is conspicuous in those industries which set the fashion of long-term wage contracts with assured annual increases." What is needed are sharp price cuts. But instead, some industries have actually...