Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truly, the founders of the great United States of America must be turning in their graves to see to what a low ebb have fallen patriotism, honor and dignity . . . Please, please, wash the dirty linen in private! Remember the high principles upon which your great country was founded...
...color maps on the following four pages show the world's contemporary empires, at their peak and at their present ebb. Imperialism itself is in retreat: out of step with the 20th century, it is condemned to anachronism by the urgent drive of black man and yellow man to be free. But not all empires are doomed to sudden extinction. Britain's conspicuously has proven its ability to learn from defeat, to loosen the bonds forged by gunboat and ledger, and to command the loyalty of many of its subjects through freedom instead of force...
...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...