Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I had supposed I would win a few thousand dollars and be known to a small television audience. But from an unknown college instructor, I became a national celebrity. I received thousands of letters and dozens of requests to make speeches, appear in movies and so forth. To a certain...
Gross National Product. Since 1947, the nation's real gross national product has expanded at an average annual rate of 3.6%, a rate of growth that if sustained would double U.S. production in 22 years. This increase compares with an average rise of 2.9% for the 1909-57 period...
Most people think of the man with two jobs as a relatively underpaid worker who is forced to moonlight to pay the household bills. The cop and the fireman, who get as little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week...
On inflation's other front, the fight for a balanced U.S. budget for fiscal 1961, disputes were rumbling that only the President could settle. The Pentagon was crying that U.S. defensive strength will suffer if the Administration insists on holding spending to the $41 billion level of the current...
Symbolic Strings. Dillon's strong statement was part of a massive readjustment of U.S. economic policy to fit the facts of modern economic life. Last year, chiefly because of spending for economic and military aid, the U.S. sent abroad $3.4 billion more than it received for its exports. Faced...