Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seasonal comeback, the Administration for weeks had fought for a wait-and-see period before giving in to increasing demands for drastic, perhaps reckless, action against recession. March unemployment figures, President Dwight Eisenhower assured the nation in a special economic message last Feb. 12, should improve. Why? The answer: Spring...
Walter Reuther's support is much less than conclusive-and "Soapy" Williams, with his eye glued to 1960, could do with some votes from U.S. businessmen. In the current Harvard Business Review, Princetonian ('33) Williams asks an unabashed question, gives an unabashed answer. The question: "Can businessmen be Democrats?" The answer: "The door is open and business is welcome." The Democratic Party, he assures his readers, "is not anti-business ... is not a labor party . . . can in no sense be called a class party...
...altar, Welles tries to hog-tie her up with Ben Quick. "Ah am no tremblin' little rabbit full of smolderin' unsatisfah'd desires," screams Actress Woodward when Quick puts up his proposition. "[Sex] is not enough . . . not nearly enough!" But Quick has an answer for that: "The world belongs to the meat eaters, Miss, and if you've got to take it raw, take...
...readers out of its circulation of 3,533,956 and is already paring its ad rates accordingly. Last week readers without R.F.D. addresses were considering a special query from the magazine: "Do you own, operate, live on, work on a farm, or do business with a farmer?" If the answer was no, the subscriber got the choice of a cash rebate or a subscription to one of 17 other magazines (from True Confessions to Catholic Digest). The scheme: by lowering its space rates and assuring advertisers of a full crop of farm readers, the Farm Journal hopes to attract enough...
...much and when? Some economists argue that the U.S. cannot afford the $6 billion to $8 billion yearly loss to the Government of the tax-cut packages so far proposed, especially since the Government expects to run into a $4.5 billion deficit in fiscal 1959 without a cut. The answer of tax-cutters is that a cut eventually generates new revenue by stimulating economic activity; for example, the Government lost some $5 billion yearly in revenue when it cut taxes in 1954, but within a year, as the tax cut helped push the boom forward once more, revenue...