Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topic, Liberalism and the Democratic Party. Like all subsequent events on the lecture schedule, today's talk will be open to the public and free of charge. The next lecture is set for July 19, when Robert G. McCloskey associate professor of Government will speak on The Republican Outlook...
With tempered optimism, the midyear forecast of the Department of Commerce concluded: "Despite some soft spots, the general industrial outlook for the balance of 1956 is favorable...
Despite auto layoffs, employment and factory earnings in May topped last year's record levels for the same month. The brightening outlook was reflected on Wall Street: the stock market last week more than recovered the points lost on news of President Eisenhower's illness...
...outlook is the steel industry. In Manhattan, the Steelworkers angrily rejected industry proposals for a five-year contract, dismissed as "picayune" the companies' offer of an annual 6tf hourly raise and other benefits (including premium pay for Sunday work, starting in 1959), which the companies said would boost labor costs 65? an hour in five years. Snorted Steelworkers' President David McDonald: "The titans of industry have labored and brought forth a louse." But most steelmen remained hopeful that a contract would be signed by the July 1 deadline...
...prophesy financial trends for the German banking house of Fugger. The art of business prediction has come a long way from its starry-eyed origins. But economists admit readily that their prognostications are still largely a matter of educated guesswork. And in the current uncertainty over the economic outlook, guesstimating fever has reached epidemic pitch. Says one topflight Washington economist: "We work by the seat of our pants more often than we like to admit...