Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pravda attacked a number of local party officials and Scientists Avalov, Orlov, Nesterov and Shchedrin for "slanderous statements directed against the party's policy and its Leninist foundations." Singled out for his "provocative, antiparty" attitude was Economist L. D. Yaroshenko, whom Stalin himself denounced for "Bukharinism...
...MILLION CARS, 35% more than today, will be rolling along U.S. highways by 1966, predicts Chrysler Corp. Economist W. C. Flaherty. Though the number of cars scrapped each year will increase from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 an expanding population, better roads and better cars will push the nation's new car sales up to an average 8,000,000 to 9,000,000 annually...
...small-town Nova Scotia boy, Lauchlin Currie traveled far. He studied economics at Harvard and remained to teach; he became a U.S. citizen, a Treasury Department economist, eventually administrative assistant, friend and close adviser to President Roosevelt. After Roosevelt's death Currie, at 43, bowed out of Government, opened an import-export firm in Manhattan...
...Amman grew scattered stands of wheat. Flanked by rich oil lands, Jordan had no oil of its own, got revenue only from tolls on the two pipelines that cross it from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. "A cement factory and a cigarette plant constitute Jordan's heavy industry," an economist observed wryly. Abdullah accordingly took Britain's advice with its money, accepted British commanders for the Arab Legion, let Britain plant its embassy inside his palace grounds. His Bedouin subjects, flocking to join the colorfully uniformed Legion, made no objection...
...economist who has a fine bass voice and writes short stories, Gill has been pressed into service by a group of Leverett men seeking to reestablish the House glee club, which should be in operation next year. Since Leverett has several members of the creative writing branch of the English department on its staff, Gill thinks a creative writing group may be in the offing...