Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treaty means discussing the Eastern frontier question," i.e., risking endorsement of the present Oder-Neisse border with Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...
...Salinas Lozano, 41, Secretary of Economy. A top economist and Ruiz Cortines' president of the National Commission on Investments, he has written a definitive study entitled Possibilities of Foreign Capital Investments in Mexico...
Peking's statistics are suspect, but 1958 figures, noted a British economist, "defy belief and baffle logic." But even if Communist figures could be trusted, Red China still has a long way to go before claiming to be a modern industrial state. Mainland China's rate of industrial growth last year was only half that of Japan's. By the end of its current six-year plan, Japan will have acquired new productive capacity greater than that of all the industrial plant Mao's China now has. The Chinese Communists have yet to produce...
...pair of intrepid Britons reported in with the news that the good name of Physician-Explorer David Livingstone is still to be found in the Dark Continent. While tracing Livingstone's paddle up the sluggish Zambezi (made a century ago), Voyagers Quentin Keynes, 34, nephew of the late Economist John Maynard Keynes...
...Government economist predicted that defense orders will taper off after their recent spurt. Viewing the expected softening in housing and Pentagon procurement, he said: "We may be entering a period of somewhat more sober views of our economy, maybe a feeling of some disappointment. This will not be because our economy is declining. It will be, if it develops, because our economy is not expanding as rapidly as some of this recent exhilaration has suggested it would do. The fault will not lie with our economy but with our views...