Word: author
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please, let's keep our records straight, and taint not my name. John Sack, author of Report from Practically Nowhere and my son, is 28 as of now, not 30 as you said [March 16]. I was married 30 years ago this month. What will my friends say? TRACY L. SACK
Others ran what amounted to an airfreight service with private planes. Hoodlums entered the act, were even able to plunder government-willed collections. Artist Diego Rivera willed his fine collection to Mexico. It was pilfered before the government ever got it. Shortly after Anthropologist-Author Miguel Covarrubias died, some of the best pieces in his top-notch collection (also willed to Mexico) showed up first in a Texas gallery, then in a Manhattan gallery, which sold them to private collectors...
...author of these desperate verses, a notorious California road agent known as Black Bart, removed "that Box" at the risk of life and limb from a westbound stagecoach on the afternoon of July 25, 1878-and found inside it a mere $600 in cash and kind. Poor old Bart. He was born a century too soon. In 1959 he would have found, in nearly every parlor in the land, a box from which any man with enough strength to pull a hair trigger and enough chin to hold a hat string can apparently remove as much as a million dollars...
Father of the expression is Dr. Gardiner C. Means, economist and author of The Structure of the American Economy. In 1935, while on the staff of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, Means published a study of price trends in the Depression to which he gave the title: "Industrial Prices and Their Relative Inflexibility." In it Means said that the classical Adam Smith laissez-faire free market, in which prices are set by a constant interplay of supply and demand, did not exist. In place of Smith's market-price theory, Means offered his administered-price theory. Said...
Most economists of stature smile at the administered-prices argument. John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have...