Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember the terrible Depression of 1930-32 . . ." Douglas did not mention the fact that, in 1949, President Harry Truman and Truman Economist Leon Keyserling called a worse slump "an inevitable adjustment," "a transition period," "a moderate decline...
...London Economist lent its weight to the Australians' complaint in an article titled "Aboriginals in Fleet Street." "The Queen's otherwise triumphal passage [is being] marred by something for which neither royalty nor antipodean affection can be blamed. The fault [lies] with certain London daily newspapers . . . Several correspondents covering the tour have expressed the hope that they could return at leisure and really learn something. It might pay their employers to help them...
Shoes, Ships &; Stamps. Actually, the career of Economist Burns passed through a good many more phases than that. Burns was born 49 years ago in Austrian Poland. He was nine when he and his father came to the U.S. Arthur worked as a postal clerk, waiter, theater usher, dishwasher, oil-tanker mess boy, and salesman of shoes, furniture and real estate. By his third year as a student at Columbia, Burns had decided that he wanted to be an economist. After graduation he started teaching economics and doing research work while writing his doctor's thesis. Its subject: "Production...
...Economists know that business is slipping, but they are having trouble finding a way to describe 1) what is going on, and 2) how bad it will get. Last week, at a credit conference of the American Bankers Association in Chicago, Economist Walter E. Hoadley of the Armstrong Cork Co. produced a list of the newest expressions used by the most contemporary schools of economic thought. Samples...
...rain in selecting his board. Only one, Pain Joseph Sachs, was asked back. The new men, while justly famous in their fields, represented a new spirit in the University thinking about the Press. Thomas Barbour, director of the Harvard Museum, was chosen, as was Biology professor Baird Hastings and Economist Edward Mason. Malone, himself, was no professional publisher, but a sometime historian...