Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the federal deficit will continue to be large, possibly running to $10-$12 billion next year, it will still represent less than 3% of the gross national product, hardly a harbinger of runaway inflation. The bothersome rise in the wage-price spiral will be slowed by several deflationary factors...
The president of the world's biggest industrial company was 65, and the citizens of Flint, Mich, gathered to do him honor. As General Motors' Harlow Curtice waited in the wings of Flint's Industrial Mutual Association auditorium, an orchestra played You, Gee, But You're...
In South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot. A schoolchild clever enough to remain a dau through 13 years of classes and pass his bachot (baccalaureate exam) becomes a tri thuc (intellectual), and has few further worries. The young...
Housing starts increased in June for the fourth consecutive month, steel production has declined only seasonally (while new orders held up), petroleum output increased and is scheduled to gain further in August, and demand for natural and synthetic textiles has firmed. Last week the Federal Reserve Board reported that department...
Taking up the threat of oncoming inflation, the Federal Reserve review speculated that further price rises might be held down by the large inventories still on hand. Recent price rises in steel and other raw materials, said the report, were encouraged by the Mideast crisis, and might prove to be...