Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's supply of skilled labor and its capacity to produce, setting the stage for a classic "demand-pull" inflation. Economists say that inflation occurs when prices rise 2% a year or more, which often happens when times are good, money is easy, and too many dollars chase too few goods. At such times, manufacturers borrow heavily to increase production and work forces, and output jumps unnaturally high. Prices climb ever upward. Unless the Government acts quickly and wisely to restore stability, a day of reckoning comes sooner or later. Demand drops to normal levels - perhaps because consumers become...
...Premier) with the Communists in hopes of moderating Red influence, saw rigged elections wipe out his Peasant Party before threats to his life forced him into exile once more in 1947, this time in the U.S., where he spent his years lecturing and writing; of a stroke; in Chevy Chase...
...home, a chorus of tax advice descended on him last week from just about every other quarter. Some influential voices continue to insist on a tax increase, of course, such as those of Walter Heller, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Harvard Economist John K. Galbraith and Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller. But the nays increasingly have...
Having shot down the city solicitor, the Post & Times-Star focused its attention on Probate Court Judge Chase M. Davies. It turned out that during his 19 years on the bench, he had made a practice of appointing relatives and close friends as appraisers. Out of a $37,575,282 estate left by a Procter & Gamble heiress, two of Judge Davies' friends had each received a $37,575 fee. Upset by the publicity, the probate judge paid two frantic calls on Editor Thornburg to try to persuade him that he was a man of probity. Said Thornburg...
Earlier in the week, Johnson showed familiar signs of restlessness. Though doctors had advised him not to drive for three weeks, he led the press corps on an hour-long auto chase around tiny Fredericksburg, Texas, after church services. Later, he grew lonesome at the ranch, began commuting 65 miles daily by JetStar to Austin. There he worked for the first time in memory in the ten-room office suite built for him two years ago atop Austin's new federal building-a layout which the G.O.P. branded his Texas Taj Mahal. For all his exertions...