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...This month, in a work force of 65 million, the number of unemployed is 3,000,000. Few economists believe that the U.S. (or any other nation) can maintain "full employment"-i.e., an unemployment figure below 2,000,000 or 3% of the labor force-without chronic inflation or war or severe regimentation of business and labor...
...Romagna blacksmith and had come up the hard way, going to jail for his political activities, suffering poverty in Switzerland. They knew little of his real character-e.g., that he could be bullied by anyone who took the trouble. They knew still less of his chronic ailments (syphilis, stomach ulcers) and his antipathy to taking baths, changing his shirt, or shaving...
...Indian-financed, U.S.-engineered $327 million hydroelectric-irrigation project. Starting in the Himalayan foothills where the Sutlej River pours onto the plains, the project has more than 4,500 miles of canals, will eventually distribute water through an area twice the size of New Jersey, some of it in chronic famine...
...their feathers and strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied his new hold to those in the audience who disapproved...
Burns based his "chronic optimism" on many factors. While non-farm employment was off slightly this May, he noted the average work week had increased by three-tenths of an hour. Factory orders for durable goods are on the rise, and "are behaving in a most encouraging fashion . . . The rate of decline in inventories has diminished. This will tend to lift production." The latest figures from the Commerce Department showed that for all of 1954, outlays for new plants and equipment should equal 1953's $28 billion, instead of dropping 4% as a previous survey had indicated...