Word: economists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father was the Prime Minister who kept Sweden out of World War I. Hammarskjold was from childhood a quiet, reserved person whose pastimes were solitary (mountaineering, cycling) and whose interests were intellectual (modern poetry and modern art). Despite what colleagues called his "devastating impersonality," his brilliant record as an economist and his outstanding administrative skill made him at 31 Under Secretary of Finance, and, at 36, chairman of the Bank of Sweden...
Businessmen have trouble defining the new conservatism because it represents a departure from dogma, from the rigid principles and prejudices of classic conservatism. As Yale Economist Henry C. wrote, those who voted for "an other four years of conservatism" this month were endorsing "something felt, rather than clearly seen. Conservatism is an attitude, an approach, more than a specific set of doctrines. Its specific policies must change with the times-anything else would be ossification, not conservatism. And conservatism must flow from convictions if it is to be more than defense of vested interests...
Several influential journals-the Manchester Guardian, the Economist, the Observer- called bluntly for Eden's resignation. Already people were calling it "Eden...
...expressing his loyalty. Privately, he let it be known he had not been consulted on many points. Publicly he exclaimed: "I have never known, under any Prime Minister I have served, the qualities of courage, integrity and flair more clearly represented than in our present Prime Minister." Commented the Economist: "Remembering, as one was meant to remember, that Mr. Butler's last Prime Minister was Sir Winston, [this is] an example of how to damn a leader by praise that nobody will believe...
...expansion. Despite economic controls, the enormous demand for money is outstripping the supply of funds, thus pushing interest rates-and businessmen's costs-even higher. Though personal savings have increased at an annual rate of $4.5 billion, from $16.7 billion to $21.2 billion in the last year, economists doubt that they are rising fast enough to satisfy the demand for money. Other sources of investment funds are also falling behind, e.g., life insurance companies expect to increase their new assets by only $6 billion in 1956. As things stand, says New York University Economist Raymond Rodgers, rapidly expanding mortgage...