Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gross national product will pass a rate of $500 billion early in the year and probably hit $525 billion before 1960 ends. It should reach $700 billion by 1970, predicted Emerson P. Schmidt, research director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
...good many effects of the strike still remained. In steel towns across the nation, merchants reported steelworkers were paying off debts and replenishing savings before resuming buying. The biggest strike effect was on the national budget. At Augusta, Budget Director Maurice H. Stans informed President Eisenhower that lowered corporate tax collections traceable to the strike would turn the expected 1959-60 budget balance into a deficit...
...Supreme Court Justice in a steam bath is divested not only of shirt, shorts, socks, shoes, pants, and robe of office. but of his authority. So argues Author Lawrence Langner, director of the Theatre Guild, authority on patent law and, in this volume, theorist on the use and abuse of clothes. Writes Langner, with the fervor of a textile magnate enjoying a martini after a board meeting: If it were not for the invention of clothes, "there would be precious little religion, government, society, law and order, [or] morals...
...Magician (Swedish). A fascinating potpourri of murky symbols, eerie images and fleshy scenes by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman...
...Nothing like this Region Study has even been done," declared Raymond Vernon, professor of International Trade and Investment, and director of the Metropolitan Region Study. "We have spent $600,000 in grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefellers and a staff of more than 40 professional people have worked over three years on the project...