Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airman thinks that the Air Force will let a big segment of the vital U.S. aircraft-engine industry wither away. But the immediate future looks thin. Said one Pentagon policymaker last week: "I would like to see a more even distribution. But for all these jet-engine people, it is just too bad that Pratt & Whitney is so uniformly good...
Federal activities, both in foreign and domestic affairs, were cited as harmful to manufacturers. Excessive tariff concessions on woolens and worsteds, made at Geneva in 1948, were a factor in the 50 per cent decline of this segment of the industry. A partial compensation for this policy is an agreement with Japan to put a voluntary quota on cotton exports. "Our position," Harris stated, "was that the burden ... of solving the Japanese problems should not be put excessively on cotton textiles...
...Parity is a formula for adjusting farm support prices according to the prices farmers have to pay for the things they buy (fertilizers, tractors, etc.). The aim is to give the farmer's dollar the same purchasing power it had in 1910-14. No other segment of the U.S. economy has the same Government guarantee. Parity prices are revised monthly by the Department of Agriculture...
PROBABLY no Administration in U.S. history-and certainly no President-has enjoyed the freedom from press criticism extended to President Eisenhower. There have been sporadic grumbles from pro-Ike editors over isolated issues or personalities, but in essence the predominant segment of the press that went for Eisenhower four years ago has stayed with him enthusiastically and uncomplainingly. But if the pro-Ike Cleveland Plain Dealer is right, "The honeymoon is over." For the first time, a general murmur of complaint is rolling across the pro-Administration editorial pages. The editors think the budget should be cut, and they...
...most ticklish law-enforcement fact in many a big Northern city is that the crime rate among Negroes is far higher than that of any other segment of the population*-and few elected officials want to antagonize vote-conscious Negroes by saying so. None knew this better than the unhappy city fathers of Kansas City, Mo., who, during the first three weeks of 1957, saw the number of armed robberies, burglaries and thefts run 40% beyond the 1956 rate, while four out of five robbery victims reported that the holdup men were Negroes. One day last fortnight, seven Negro businessmen...