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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class Committee of 1959 has announced the election of Frederick C. Cabot as Permanent Class Treasurer and Charles Devens, Jr. as Permanent Class Secretary. R. Dyke Benjamin, Richard E. Rubenstein, John P. Demos, J. Lindsay Coolidge and Stuart Troy have been chosen by the Committee to act as Class Agents...
Mysterious Silence. On Jan. 31, 1958, a Jupiter-C, fired from Cape Canaveral, put Explorer I into a fine orbit. With two massive Sputniks to compete with, the U.S. pinned its hopes for outdoing the Russians on the superiority of Van Allen's instruments...
Vice Chairman C. Canby Balderston of the Federal Reserve Board warned the Philadelphia Bond Club that industrial prices have risen 2% since the recession low, sooner and more sharply than after the two last recessions, despite continued high unemployment and unused industrial capacity. The upsetting fact about this, said Balderston, is that the price level did not dip during the recession, perhaps because the downturn was so short. "The recent advances are piled on top of a level that never dropped down. When prices fail to decline during a recession, then they are in position to contribute to inflation during...
Blaming Profits. Congress also was beginning to dig into prices. One big reason they are so high, believe Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, is the "administered price," which largely ignores demand in deference to industry's effort to improve profits. Last week the Senate antitrust subcommittee, headed by Senator Kefauver, held hearings on a bill introduced by Senator O'Mahoney to require companies in highly concentrated industries to give 30 days' advance notice of any price hike...
...King's War: 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. History is a people's memory, and few have summoned up Britain's more vividly than Wedgwood in this scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead...