Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other machines but can also reproduce themselves. Composed of scores of small companies, many family-owned, the machine-tool industry is really more basic than steel, for it takes machine tools to make the machines which make steel. Machine-tool orders are a prime index of the business outlook, reflecting as they do businessmen's confidence in adding new equipment or in replacing the old or obsolete...
Also worried by Labor was the Annalist, which suggested: "It is easily possible to overemphasize the importance of strikes in the general business outlook. There have been numerous instances where strikes . . . have actually improved the statistical position of. an entire industry by curtailing production. . . . But there is much to indicate that the problem of labor relations constitutes one of the danger spots in the business outlook for the next few months...
Meantime the stockmarket has gradually moved up to its old New Deal high made last April. At that time a general reappraisal of the business outlook seemed in order and stock prices subsequently suffered their first serious setback in more than a year (TIME, May 4). Significant to market chartists, nevertheless, is the fact that the recent recovery has not been a strong enough to carry the stock averages through their old tops...
...father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook for U. S. securities, Broker Benson declared: "In spite of all talk about inflation and so forth, there is no place in the world where money is as safe as it is here...
...past Jung has contributed greatly to psychology by broadening and deepening the otherwise narrow outlook of psycho-analysis. It is regrettable, however, to discover that a man of such keen psychological insight is willing to dull his scientific sensibilities through indirect association with the Nazi race theories. Jung may properly be honored for his contributions in the past if one is willing to overlook the unscientific trend of his pronouncements in the present." Gordon W. Allport