Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar middle class world. The leitmotif of loss of contact with the land resounds again and again until it crashes out in the final crescendo climax of the play. On one level Arthur Miller's play is one of violent social criticism if perhaps to call its roots Marxist would not be going...
Stanley Tackney does well as the news analyst who once said over the air, "Congratulations, President Dewey." Josephine Nichols, as his scatter-brained wife, would be fine if she didn't keep letting her voice rise to a shrill level. Kathern Shaw and Jeff Davis make an appealing pair of lovers, while Stratton Walling, John Lasell and an amazingly well-trained cat give capable support...
Machine-tool makers say their business is the "first to feel a recession, the last to recover." Back in January 1956-when the rest of the U.S. economy was still going up-machine-tool orders began skidding from their boom level of $125 million a month. Last week signs appeared that they were on the upturn again...
...week the direction was still toward easy money. The Federal Reserve's open market committee continued its buying of Government bonds, thus helping stabilize the market. Moreover, it announced that for the week ending June 25, average free reserves of member banks hit $611 million and the highest level in 3½ years. To Wall Street it meant that there would still be plenty of money around for investment once the market settled down...
...Stampar, M.D., 69, president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, who helped set up the U.N.'s World Health Organization, served as chairman (1948) of the first World Health Assembly, ran it with what one delegate called a "unanimity complex," bringing all considerations to the personal level with such stock remarks as "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item" and "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal"; after long illness; in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...