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...disorder raised by McCarthy, has won him acclaim as an impartial and patient judge. But this leniency has let the inquiry roam through so many irrelevant topics, that talk of a Christmas recess is hardly unwarranted. At the rate hearings have progressed so far, public interest will surely ebb long before they are finished. Moreover, the television networks, which have taken terrific losses in return for their extensive coverage, will probably omit portions of the inquiry...
...trouble is that the Government uses three basic methods to chart the ebb and flow of U.S. unemployment, and all three need improvement. All are limited surveys and wide open to errors of interpretation. Of the three, the most important-and most controversial-is the Census Bureau's total count of the U.S. labor force (currently about 62 million over the age of 14). The bureau first checks a tiny, carefully chosen sample of the U.S., only 25,000 households in 68 key areas. Then it mathematically projects the figures on the size of the labor force...
...factors to be used in taking accurate count of the nation's economic pulse rate. As a professor at Columbia and, at the same time, as research director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Burns became the leading U.S. expert on business cycles-the ebb &; flow of prosperity...
...ebb tide had set in and John Bricker could not stop it. In midweek, Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, one of the amendment's 64 original sponsors, publicly announced a change of mind, indicated he would vote against it. Five others admitted privately to the same change of position. Bricker could no longer count on the necessary two-thirds majority...
...their platforms an invariably call for increased benefits. Week after week, year after year the working man sees one and a half percent deducted from his pay check and is fully confident that, come 65, he will retire on a guaranteed income. Social Security is untouched by the ebb and flow of economic and political tides because its payments come entirely from a trust fund maintained by scaled payroll taxes. At the present time, this fund contains over 17 billion dollars, more than enough for current benefit expenses. Further, the Administration plans legislation to include farmers and professional...