Word: prices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this mean that a serious recession was in sight? No, said Slichter. He doubted that many prices would ever drop far toward prewar levels. Any drop in business spending, he thought, would be quickly made up by a rise in buying by consumers and by state and local governments which still have "great [unfilled] needs." Never had there been a boom of comparable magnitude "accompanied by less optimism and less speculative buying." Even after three years of it, the country as a whole is still in a "remarkably sound position," although eventually there will probably be a price adjustment. Slichter...
...planes were getting stiff competition from luxury liners. Many ships were already booked full for next summer while plane reservations lagged. To get the business back, American Overseas Airlines, Pan American Airways and T.W.A. cut their transatlantic round-trip rates for the winter to about 1⅓ the price of a single summer fare. Sample Pan Am rate: New York to London, $466.60, down from...
...price of this pre-eminence has been a degree of paternalism that makes Harvard students sit up and take notice. From 1755, when King's College--the original name for Columbia--rules decreed that "none of the pupils shall fight Cocks, play at Cards, Dice or any unlawful game;" to 1946, when the college was able to dominate the Columbia Spectator, Columbia's daily newspaper; and to 1947, when college officials refused to let a student group sponsor a talk by Howard Fast, convicted of contempt of a Congressional committee, only the degree and not the spirit of deans office...
...other hand, paternalism has its undisputable advantages. Student organizations are provided with office space, and often given financial assistance when the need arises. But the price that Columbia has exacted in return for this beneficience is a rule that "the University reserves the right to pass upon the acceptability of the policies and programs of an organization with which the University's name shall be publicly associated...
...Brien pledged himself to restore price controls, increase veterans' housing, fight for social security, and repeal the Taft-Hartley...