Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussion group meets fortnightly, debating almost anything. Clyde Kluckhohn, for example spoke to the group about the female Kinsey report, and Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Economist Seymour Harris have also been recent guests. Two tutors recently formed a poetry group which plans to invite local poets to the House for informal meetings. There is a play-reading group, an art committee, which sponsors eight exhibits a year, and a house newspaper, the Oak Leaf, published occasionally...
...Hideki Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis. Such men as Philosopher Irwin Edman, Critic Lionel Trilling and Classicist Gilbert Highet are full-fledged city celebrities. Economist Carl Shoup wrestles with city finances; Historian Harry Carman serves on the Board of Higher Education, and a slew of geologists and planners struggle with the city's water and traffic...
...Americans crying in their beards about German, French and Italian competition in Latin America, I would say what the London Economist said to British businessmen ... on the same subject 'Quit crying and go to work; the sellers' market is over; you have to get out and do a job if you want the business...
Winfield W. Riefler, Federal Reserve Board economist, reported that the FRB's industrial-production index would probably go down another two points in February from the January figure of 125 (1947-49 = 100). That would mean, said Riefler, that output since the postwar peak last October has dropped about as much as it did in the first four months of the "exceptionally mild" setback in 1948-49-Economist Edwin G. Nourse, who was head of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers during the 1949 recession, told Congress what the current figures mean...
...line with its theme of Harvard's contribution in the scholarly world, the magazine also features capsule biographies of 12 professors, including Chemist George B. Kistiakewsky, Economist Sumner Slichter, and Philosopher Harry A. Wolfson...