Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the proclamation announcing Franco's fourth Cabinet in 20 years (the others: 1936, 1945, 1951) appeared three days later, the big surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain's downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring...
This kind of crazy mixed-up Marxist talk came last week from Polish Economist Jan Danecki. Added another Polish economist, writing in Warsaw's Express Wieczorny: "Certainly Socialism [i.e., Communism] will not tumble down if haberdashery, carpet slippers, little screws and tubes are manufactured by private concerns. Besides, they will make them properly, because if the goods are bad they cannot sell them...
What makes the Hauge collection even more unusual is that it was put together out of the salaries and savings of two modestly paid Government officials. (Osborne, 43, is now an economist in the Bureau of the Budget in Washington; Victor, 37, is still in Tokyo as top U.S. Information Service radio-TV man.) The Hauges got off to a flying start with the whirlwind of inflation that swept the Japanese yen from 15 all the way to 360 to the dollar. At the same time the Hauges were reaping a paper harvest of yen, Japanese families, hit with postwar...
...economist answered Furcolo's challenge by pointing to possible revisions in the existing income tax laws which, he claimed, would raise "about twice as much as Furcolo expects from the sales tax." His major proposals were...
While the dollar value of the cut was comparatively small, the political effect was large. Said Japanese Government Economist Morio Yukawa: "I do not think that Japan stands alone in feeling apprehension over the growing intensity of import restrictions in the U.S. It is our sincere desire that the American people take full cognizance of the fact that their every action, however slight or unpremeditated, casts an influence on all the free nations out of all proportion to their original intent...