Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaky, knobbly-kneed calf, not quite sure where he was going. The market stood at only 191.05 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, and many an economist-along with Russia's Kremlin-loudly predicted that the U.S. faced an "inevitable" postwar depression. The bull did go off his feed a bit in 1949, but it was only a mild case of colic. He kept growing and growing, appeared on the cover again in June 1950, as U.S. business kept on expanding to meet the needs of an exploding population...
Incentives of Fear. In China too, the boss blamed those below. Mao was also suffering from a desperate agricultural imbalance. He set out audaciously to do two tasks at once-to create an industrial structure from scratch while at the same time boosting farm output to feed an increasing population. To achieve a radical increase in farm products, he did not propose to introduce Khrushchev's costly peasant incentives. Instead, Mao has substituted Communism's cheapest incentives-fear and control...
...failures under his direction," had "dishonestly" put out "humbug" figures purporting to show that the country had produced 145 million tons of grain, when in cold fact it had harvested no more than 100 million. Taking over, Nikita Khrushchev saw that the only way to expand production to feed an industrialized nation was to open vast new acreage in Siberia and offer Russia's collective farmers gaudy price incentives to boost their output. Having messed up Soviet agriculture earlier, said Khrushchev, the "reactionaries" of the anti-party group fought his every reform. "It hurts my tongue to call them...
...flood of credit. In the new economy so many other financial institutions -insurance companies, finance companies, savings and loan associations-have grown up that the nation's credit pool is increasingly independent of the FRB. Nor was Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. in any tearing hurry to force feed the economy. Said Martin: "During a boom, waste and inefficiency creep in naturally. It's hard not to believe that recession does a lot of business a lot of good...
...composing room. When the strike is over, the Times will publish a condensed edition bringing history up to date with two pages of news for each day it did not publish. The Times even had a reporter covering the strike, obligingly set up a news desk to feed stories to New York's 17 radio and 7 television stations that compete with the paper's radio station WQXR...