Word: economists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baruch retorted: "How can you really, in good conscience, say to a man he cannot buy stocks except on 100% when they can buy anything they like with nothing down? It just does not make sense." Fulbright tried to trap Baruch into endorsing the earlier testimony of Harvard Economist John K. Galbraith, who thought he saw some parallels between the current market boom and the period just before the 1929 crash. Baruch smoothly said he knew nothing of Galbraith "to his detriment," then added: "I think economists as a rule-and it is not personal to him-take for granted...
...which enforces conservation of Texas' underground oil and gas). Rather than accept a money-losing, Government-fixed price, gasmen may refuse to export their gas out of the state, said Thompson. Already, federal control has brought on a sharp drop in prospecting for gas, said Standard Oil (Indiana) Economist John Boatwright...
...economist called attention to the fact that the pamphlet, published by the National Planning Association, was "in general supported by a statement signed among others, by Milton s. Eisenhower, brother of the President and Allen W. Dulles, brother of the secretary of state...
...Other Side. Then the bankers heard an opposite view. George C. Smith, economist for the F. W. Dodge Corp., said that the low rate of new-family formation reflects the Depression's low birth rate, predicted that the new-family-formation rate will soon pick up and keep the demand for new housing at upwards 1,000,000 yearly for the next five years. Said Smith: "I would expect to find some local problems, some temporary gluts and vacancies . . . But I don't believe, and I can't find any other construction economist who believes, that...
...London ECONOMIST...