Word: economisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doorstep. And they are still coming in, in a tide that reached 10,000 this year and is still increasing. They carry British passports, and they cannot be barred on the ground of job scarcity; in booming Britain, there are more jobs than men to fill them. Admitted the Economist: "Complaints that natives of the West Indies are taking jobs and homes away from natives of Britain are really only polite hypocrisy...
...Association last week, but they will be tougher in 1955. There will be more than 30 million pupils in the nation's public schools-1,125,000 more than in the last school year. ¶ After questioning 591 college students in the Madras area, the New Delhi Eastern Economist found just how topsyturvy student social life has become. As a result of a growing movement against them, 55% of the Brahmans questioned said they now feel discriminated against, while only a third of the lower castes felt the same. Most common complaint among the highborn: "The untouchables, they persecute...
...Banker-Economist John D. Clark, onetime Truman adviser, the Democrats called the Administration's policy a failure. They charged that mistakes in manipulating money rates had cut off the boom in 1953 and prolonged 1954's recession. Clark argued that the "new fiscal managers set out to upset the business boom as soon as they took office in January 1953. The tightening of credit and increase in interest rates smothered a business boom." Furthermore, added Clark, the Administration should lower bank reserves, ease credit still more, thus give the economy "an extra push" back to 1953 levels...
...dead, the only living nucleus of a supranational Europe is the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community, which has its own High Authority, its own supreme court, even its own Common Assembly. Last week the 78 delegates to the Assembly unanimously elected a new Assembly president: economist Giuseppe Pella, former Christian Democratic Premier of Italy (for 4½ months in 1953). He is the third ex-Premier to be chosen for the post (predecessors: Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak and Italy's late Alcide de Gasperi...
University of Illinois Agricultural Economist R. W. Bartlett surveyed milk-pricing in 50 U.S. cities last year, found that prices were invariably higher where state controls existed. In 17 cities with free-milk markets, grocery stores charged an average of 20. 1? quart, 3.1? less than the average home-delivered price. In 18 state-controlled markets, the grocery price averaged 23.6? a quart, only 2? less than the home-delivered price. Says Economist Bartlett: "Modified federal regulation is absolutely essential to [prevent] chaos in milk markets. [But] state control of consumer prices constitutes a legalized monopoly which is definitely against...