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Some years ago, theorists of the Keynes-Hansen school were summarily tagged as "pump-primers." That emotionally charged label no longer does them justice. Professor Hansen argues tellingly for an integrated set of Federal policies which will diminish the roller-coaster swings of the economy from prosperity to ruin. The recommended measures include such familiar short-run ones as expanded public works in depression and cyclically adjusted tax burdens, together with attempts to get at the more fundamental factors through income redistribution, subsidized consumption, and active encouragement of private investment. The nation's best-known advocate of deliberate fiscal planning...
Never one to heed the conservative "get a horse" counsel of his less scientific companions, the intrepid Gold Coaster chose the director approach. Trial and error showed him where the weak spots were, and gravity did the rest. "Water's pretty warm for January," he concluded, as he filed his application for the local Polar Bear club...
...monsoon was coming and the jungle air was saturated with the all-pervading damp, and with a sense of disaster. On a winding, roller-coaster trail hurried a pitiful file of refugees, fleeing from destruction, despair and defeat. At the head of the line, setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute, trudged a slight, bespectacled old man wearing a World War I campaign hat. Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules...
...country who stand helplessly by while the manufacturers contemplate what the traffic will bear. By limiting purchases to the necessities of life, by refusing to buy those items which have been marked up since the demise of OPA, Harvard Square consumers can stop the local inflation roller coaster in its tracks...
...race became a roller-coaster scramble for the shelter of the Michigan shore. One yacht made it the hard way, running aground and breaking up. Another snapped her mainmast. Distress flares shot up. When noses were counted at dawn, 34 badly battered boats had made it back to Port Huron and points north. The other four had doggedly refused to give...