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Sensitive Signals. Such are the statistics that make up the "leading index," a sensitive collection of figures used by many economists to signal changes in the nation's business climate before they become generally noticeable. The index-and two other similar barometers-was developed by analysts of the National Bureau of Economic Research, including Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, and Arthur Burns, former council chairman and now president of the bureau. Since it accurately foretold the 1947 and 1953 recessions, the index is now giving many an economist and businessman the recession...
Barbara Ward. British economist and political essayist Litt.D...
...reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery old (78) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham became a Companion of Honour...
Since 1950, with the help of foreign experts (a U.S. and a British economist are full members of the board), Iraq's unique agency has built, started or planned 16 dams between the snow-veined mountains of Kurdistan and the steaming shores of the Persian Gulf. It has completed two great barrages that this year caught the flood waters of the Tigris and Euphrates and led them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream its contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used...
Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees were conferred on Barbara Ward Jackson, British economist, and Civil War historian Bruce Catton...