Word: harrod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inflation. One of the sources of confusion about Europe's current crisis of prosperity is that it is not the old-fashioned kind of inflation. There are two kinds of inflation, says Oxford Economist Roy Harrod. "One kind is that due to excess of overall demand for goods and services over the power of the economy to supply them. This may be popularly worded by the expression 'too much money chasing too few goods.' We had that kind of inflation rather severely in 1954, 1955 and the first quarter of 1956. It is now over." Harrod calls...
...undercover aliases), she took a room in a respectable Kensington family hotel and started job hunting. Too proud to mention either her medals or her war service, she was turned down time & again . as a foreigner. She worked for a while as a $14-a-week salesgirl in Harrod's department store and as a cloakroom attendant in a Paddington hotel. Last year she got a job as a tourist-class stewardess on a ship running to Australia and New Zealand...
...round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life was "centric," though it struck most people as eccentric beyond belief. He would take a bath, step out, and then step in again, shouting angrily: "Dammit, I've been in here already!" He would drop a garter...
California. Undaunted by official skepticism, one Clifford Harrod McCaslin of Oakland went on building his egg-shaped bomb shelter ("Ever try to crush an egg?"). His egg, when completed, will house 33, provide bunk space for 20. "They laughed ... at City Hall when I applied for a permit," said McCaslin, "but it isn't really funny...