Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gross national product will pass a rate of $500 billion early in the year and probably hit $525 billion before 1960 ends. It should reach $700 billion by 1970, predicted Emerson P. Schmidt, research director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at nine this fall, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle has been holding forth in Emerson Hall, and his Gallic-flavored commentary on modern European history has charmed squealing 'Cliffies and sophisticated Harvard men alike...
...plight of the newcomers is one which Mrs. Rupert Emerson feels quite strongly. Both she and Mrs. Fainsod pointed out that the Faculty wife serves as an informal settling agent. At newcomer's teas, the most common question put to the "old guard" is where one can find a good pediatrician. The vast problem of helping the newcomers find housing and friends takes up some of their time...
...Teas don't generally do this very well," Mrs. Emerson remarked. "I often think that people bring too many cookies and not enough else with them. I prefer to give dinners. By six o'clock working wives can relax and enjoy themselves, the groups are smaller, and we have time to really talk. Teas are too large and too anonymous. One time, a newcomer at a tea came over to me and asked me if there was anyone I would like to meet. I was really very delighted...
...head of a wartime Senate committee investigating defense production, Missouri's Senator Harry Truman looked closely at Emerson and "could never find anything wrong with it," as he put it. Impressed with Symington and his performance at Emerson, President Truman summoned him to the White House in mid-1945. "Stu," said Truman, "I want to dump a load of coal on you." He asked Symington to serve as head of the Surplus Property Board (later Surplus Property Administration), charged with setting policies for disposing of some $30 billion worth of Government property left over from the war, ranging from...