Word: economists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projected monthly, to be put out by Manhattan investment firm Gabriel Gladstone & Co. Inc. Other first-issue contributors: New Deal Economist Leon Keyserling, perennial Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas...
...Business," laconic Cal Coolidge once remarked, "will either be better or worse." In Washington last week, a divergence of opinion about the state of the U.S. economy presented the nation with an equally Delphic appraisal. Said one top Government economist: "The danger of inflation has passed and the nation is in a phase of healthy economic readjustment." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. disagreed. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, he insisted that inflation is the most critical economic problem facing the country, and that a rolling business adjustment is needed to avoid serious deflation. Said the A.F.L...
...pain in the neck," but many a newspaper, while tut-tutting, managed to slip in a needle at the Palace too. "There is some danger," said the Spectator, "of the monarchy leaning too heavily upon a single class." "In all the virtuous and vicious huffing and puffing," said the Economist, "the real point about the article has been lost. It is that its author is a sturdy monarchist...
Siles gave full credit to Bolivia's economic-stabilization program (based on the recommendations of U.S. Economist George Jackson Eder) for saving the country "from disaster." He pointed to the help that Bolivia is getting in U.S. technical cooperation for health, education, agriculture and roads. Siles put U.S. dollar help at more than $23 million for the fiscal year-plus an emergency $2,000,000 for Bolivia's drought-parched farm areas. He praised the "evident spirit of international cooperation" demonstrated by the $25 million currency-stabilization loan granted last December by the International Monetary Fund...
...cotton. A Colorado wheat farmer offers still another plan: "Congress should create huge cooperatives to handle the crops, and only enough should be let out to maintain the market." But farm experts who take a broad view see no simple, straightforward answer. "The farm problem," broods an Illinois farm economist,"is semi-economic, semipolitical, semi-moral and semi-social. It's as changeable as a chameleon and prickly as a porcupine...