Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...section, in the course of a friendly and otherwise accurate reference to my book, What I Said About the Press, that there were "few magazine comments on the book." Reviews have been published in Truth, the Spectator, the Listener, the New Statesman and Nation, Tribune, Time &Tide, Candour, the Economist and the Times Literary Supplement...
...Cabinet's taunting response was to propose establishing diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. For the young King, the moment had come. First summoning 50 top army officers to the palace and exacting loyalty pledges, he demanded the Cabinet's resignation. Nabulsi, a left-wing and anti-Western economist (educated at the American University of Beirut), submitted his resignation but confidently expected his leaving to stir up trouble. His coalition controlled the majority of seats in Jordan's Parliament; the explosive street crowds of Jordan were on his side, and his policies were in cahoots with Egypt...
...long time to realize. Said a Pittsburgh steelman: "Three years ago we put in a lot of new equipment. But the men called our work standards unreasonable. All kinds of mysterious breakdowns occurred. We are just now getting productivity up near where it should be." George W. Cloos, economist of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank, estimates that the benefits from capital investment last year will not show up in productivity until 1960 or later...
...studying several different types of possible legislation. Beyond that, there was talk of tougher measures that labor experts ranging up to Secretary Mitchell deem restrictive, e.g., amendment of the Clayton Act so as to make labor unions subject, along with business, to monopoly laws. Said a high-ranking Government economist: "In the hands of one man there is the power to withhold all labor from an industry. That's a terrific amount of power...
Slow Progress. Economist Villalbi's cure for these ills calls for a mixture of more freedom in some areas and more government control in others. He aims to brake the factory-building fling, concentrate instead on developing raw materials. To conserve the current supply of basic metals and coal, he wants to set up procurement priorities that would give the first choice to heavy industry. In hope of winning the support of businessmen, Villalbi has even promised that they will get a toe hold in the basic industries owned or controlled by the government...