Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the year, the full extent of the free world's progress was often clouded by worry over the economic threat of the Communist nations. The Soviets and their satellites made fast progress. But the free world traveled faster. The record was plain in the soaring production statistics, the freeing of currencies from tight controls, and in the fact that the "economy of abundance," once a U.S. phrase and fact, was visible in other lands...
...with the recommendations made earlier this month to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Conlon Associates Ltd. at the conclusion of a study requested by that committee. Of course I knew that Chiang Kai-shek was the most cherished of TIME'S sacred cows but, even so, the extent of your personal attack, distortions and inaccuracies surprised...
...Thomas Dooley [of Laos]. Not for the extent of his works but for his leadership in the application of the principles that can save...
...neglected the system in recent years. The last table devised for the U. S. economy was the 450-category chart made up in 1947. Interest at that time was occasioned by a wish to know the impact throughout the economy of an expansion of government spending on arms--the extent to which other types of production would have to contact, and the "bottle necks" that might arise...
...value of input-output analysis to individual industries and local areas is perhaps more limited than its value to a national government, but an industrialist does benefit by knowing the extent to which demand for his product might be affected by economic change. Input-output analysis will not replace, and was not intended to replace the entrepreneur's vital role of seeking profits by anticipating changes in taste and technology, but it does provide throughout the economic system many useful indicators of the results of a change--large or small--in one of the sectors