Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helping Hand. Not every segment of the economy is sharing the boom. Farm income, which was running at the annual rate of $11.6 billion in the first six months of 1956, trailed 13% behind 1952, largely as a result of the long-standing farm surplus problem. But the farm picture has been growing brighter. Though farm prices weakened slightly over the past month, they have surged 11% above the December 1955 low point; soil-bank aid will plow an additional $225 million into the farms by fall...
This book is an advance segment of the memoirs of the occasionally printable author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, and it makes a readable, sometimes hilarious appetizer to a more thorough work scheduled to come out early next year under the title Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch...
...world, anything that Nehru has to say is listened to with respect and attention. This is partly because Jawaharlal Nehru, whatever his faults, is an impressive man and can be a charming one, but it is primarily because he speaks in the name of an otherwise largely silent segment of mankind-one-seventh of the human race...
...apparently, does a large segment of the academic world. I have before me the results of a survey of the faculty members of four universities: Princeton, Texas, Washington and North Carolina. The studies were made to determine (in part) which magazines teachers read and whether or not they are guided by the reviews in those journals when they buy their books. The surveys were conducted separately by the university press at each institution and coordinated by the University of North Carolina Press...
Businessmen generally were concerned with the whole state of the economy rather than with the steel segment. Generally, the news was encouraging. The bottom of the Detroit slump seemed to have been reached and passed. Both Ford and G.M. were rehiring, and Ford announced it had found it necessary to increase production schedules for July...