Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 2,000 of the nation's top businessmen who gathered in Manhattan last week at the meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board took their annual look at the state of the U.S. economy. Their report was still another confirmation that the U.S. is in the early stages...
As the businessmen met, the latest statistics from Washington underscored their forecasts. Gross national product was rising even faster than the preliminary estimates, reached an annual rate of $467 billion for the first quarter of 1959. More important, the gain was real: with hardly any price rise to speak of...
Huge Appetite. M.I.T.'s aggressive leadership spawned a whole line of imitators and variations: ¶ The unrestricted common stock funds such as M.I.T., which like to keep a balance between dividend and growth stocks. ¶ The growth funds, which are concerned not with dividends but with long-term capital...
Died. John Foster Dulles, 71; of cancer; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Only in one dispatch--reporting the evacuation of Halfway to Heaven, a small village on North Tachen Island--does Joseph Alsop's prose ring true. Elsewhere, even in such perfectly reasonable injunctions as "Great national problems which are not honestly presented to the nation-will either be badly solved; or...