Word: economists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finance Committee last week heard a clear contrast between the economic philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration and that of the Fair Deal Democrats. Speaking for the Administration was Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, lawyer and industrialist. For the Fair Deal Democrats the spokesman was Leon Keyserling, lawyer, economist and onetime bureaucrat, who was chairman of President Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers...
...detriment. A bad harvest in Europe sent the demand for foodstuffs soaring; commodity prices rose, and last January Britain found itself paying 149% more a month for its imports of live animals for food, 145% more for animal feed. "In the last three months," said the London Economist, "[the] adverse movement in the terms of trade has cut Britain's annual rate of real income by ?100 million...
...auto sales keeping up with the record-breaking auto production? Last week the nation's dealers gave the answer: in the first eight weeks of 1955 they had pushed sales up to almost 1,000,000 cars, about 40% above last year and an alltime peak. Predicted Ford Economist George Hitchings: first-quarter sales will total 1,580,000 cars, 33% better than...
...Moving the London Economist to remark: "It is sadly characteristic of the present state of the British public opinion that, when the Americans take just the sort of step towards moderation that their allies have so often asked of them, the only audible response in this country should be a crabbed and jaundiced bickering on the left...If there is renewed war in the Far East, it will be because of Communist aggression and because of Communist aggression alone...To egg the Communists on, as Mr. Attlee is doing, is to work...
Except for Psychologist J. B. Rhine (extrasensory perception), few of Duke's professors have achieved popular fame. Yet, on almost any academic or Government committee, there is apt to be at least one faculty representative from Duke. Economist Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations...