Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President was emphatic on one point: allowing for "minor detours and bumps in the road ahead . . . economic collapse and stagnation such as started in 1929 ... need not happen again, and must not happen again." The best way to avoid them, everybody agreed, is to keep purchasing power up. The President said, significantly, that this should be done only rarely by raising wages, mostly by cutting prices. He set no precise figure for maximum employment, hoped to maintain the current peak of 58 million. Then, with the nation's productive plant going full blast, the U.S. national output should...
Justice Jackson broke in and told the harassed, striped-trousered government lawyer that he should devote some argument to what would happen if the courts lacked jurisdiction to issue an injunction in a case like the coal dispute...
Patterson stalked out to her office, stared coldly at Caniff and asked: "Ever do anything on the Orient?" Caniff hadn't. "You know," Joe Patterson mused, "adventure can still happen out there. There could be a beautiful lady pirate, the kind men fall for. . . ." In a few days Caniff was back with samples and 50 proposed titles; Patterson circled "Terry" and scribbled beside it "and the Pirates...
Object Lesson. What would happen to the U.S. economy in 1947 was inextricably tied up with a bigger long-run problem: What would happen to the world's economy? J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.'s President George Whitney said: "If this country is to prosper we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods...
Granting, as one must, that there are two valid sides to this very complex argument, it serves no useful purpose to far the Crimson with a taint it does not deserve, nor to assume the utter indefensibility of a position merely because one does not happen to endorse it. Barry Golomb...