Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adult" dailies, which are still restricted on newsprint while advertisers are clamoring for more space, thus took advantage of a new government order that permitted them to get more newsprint for new papers. Sniffed the weekly Economist: "[These papers are] aimed at an age group even younger mentally than their normal public...
...weapon in the Administration's war on Communism. Last week word leaked out that the Department had called twelve witnesses before grand juries in the District of Columbia and in New Jersey-including Mary Price, onetime secretary of Columnist Walter Lippmann; Edward J. Fitzgerald, onetime War Production Board economist, and Harold Glasser, onetime Treasury Department associate of the late Harry Dexter White. The main purpose is to get more information about Soviet spy networks, past and present. Some of these witnesses may refuse to answer, trusting that the witness-immunity law will not stand up constitutionally. On the other...
...Montreal last week, members of the American Statistical Association met to size up the economic future. The consensus of the delegates was that a mild business upswing will soon take place. Declared Chief Economist Martin Gainsbrugh of the National Industrial Conference Board: "The current plateau in business activity is not the prologue to stagnation, but rather a promising first act in the American drama of further sustained expansion...
...decay of the competitive free-enterprise system. Ever since, many Americans who never read Marx and who believe firmly in the free-enterprise system have feared that the same thing might happen. Last week a man who should know tried to lay that fear to rest. He is Economist A.D.H. Kaplan, who spent seven years studying big business for the Brookings Institution and who published his findings last week in a new book, Big Enterprise in a Competitive System...
While corporations have grown much bigger, says Economist Kaplan, the number competing with each other has also grown. Where, 53 years ago, there were only four industrial companies with assets of more than $200 million, in 1951 there were 15 with assets of more than $1 billion, and more than twice as many with assets above $500 million. At the same time, the total number of businesses has grown faster than the population, increasing from 15.4 per 1,000 persons...