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...short-lived as many people hope. Said Professor Jewell J. Rasmussen of the University of Utah, summing up the group's sentiment: "The possibility of a recession of the more serious type appears to be much greater now than in 1949 or 1953-54," because pent-up demand has been filled. But there was no such agreement among businessmen themselves. The steel industry, in fact, is cautiously optimistic, feels that it has reached the bottom. Said Arthur B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel: "Sizing up all the factors, I've felt better about things in the last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Earnings in the Dip | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...body, summoned Premier O.K. Yui to come before the Yuan to answer charges of waste in 15 government agencies. Four times Yui refused. When Yui rejected a fifth summons on the ground that, under the constitution, he does not have to answer to the Control Yuan, the legislators' pent-up frustration exploded. The Control Yuan formally voted to impeach the Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Restless Spirits | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

While the Yugoslavs seemed reluctant to discuss politics with their fellow countrymen, Lorenz found that many of them were anxious to talk politics with Americans as a vent for pent-up feelings...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Harvard's 'Experimenters' Taken into Foreign Homes | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...that what they are consciously aware of comprises the whole of their mentality. And this recognition, with all its formidable consequences for the future of social organization, we owe above all to Freud . . . Man's chief enemy and danger is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him. If our race is lucky enough to survive for another thousand years the name of Sigmund Freud will be remembered as that of the man who first ascertained the origin and nature of those forces, and pointed the way to achieving some measure of control over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Last Days of Freud | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...which brought Edward R. Murrow back to a new season of See It Now on CBS this week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland and The Netherlands and such private U.S. businesses as United Parcel Service, explored the problems of whether and how the post office should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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