Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans, despite their dislike of Communism, lack enough faith in capitalism to risk their money on its ability to produce sustained prosperity. Many others . . . lack not faith but cash to buy stocks after paying record high taxes and living costs. [As a result] the stockmarket remains the only uninflated segment of our economy...
...save Europe but to save America," he said. He offered this yardstick to measure any anti-inflation plan: "Let the public ask-whom does it hit? If it hits everyone, more than likely it will be a good program. If it taps here and there, touching one segment while exempting others, it will be a bad program...
...Feng's progress? Wrote a Chinese newspaper recently: "During the period of 1916 to 1925, he turned his spear backward seven times, at the rate of about once a year." That was a pretty good explanation, except for two points: 1) it dealt with only a small segment of a long and tortuous career, and 2) some might not understand that American for "turned his spear" is "double-crossed...
Meanwhile, Business Researcher Eleanor Stoddard was busy in New York interviewing people and assembling material. The result of nearly three weeks' work was her 50-page report. It covered the year's economy, segment by segment, with a chronology of events, earnings figures, significant developments in industry, etc. Researcher Stoddard also passed along a foot-high stack of pertinent reports on the year's business, selected from the 100-odd morgue folders she had gone through...
Does U.S. industry know a way to curb inflation? Last week, General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, who often speaks for a large segment of American industry, laid down a rudimentary sketch of such a plan...