Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic news last week, federal agencies reached back nearly a decade for unpleasant comparisons. Unemployment, the Labor Department announced, hit 3,188,000 last month, highest November total since the recession year of 1949. Housing starts across the U.S. in 1957, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, will fall short of the milliona-year rate for the first time since...
...from it. What Reuther and his fellow A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders called for as labor's 1958 platform was 1) higher wages, plus 2) "increased leisure" through shorter work weeks with no pay reduction, plus 3) bigger health, welfare and unemployment-benefit programs. In short: more pay, less work. When the economy was booming, Reuther had called for wage boosts to catch up with higher prices. Now, with the economy slumping, he called for wage boosts as the cure for a recession caused-in the official A.F.L.C.I.O. view-by a lack of purchasing power...
...Sukarno made his rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally of 100,000 Indonesians to prepare for hard times. "We must dare!" he cried. "We must start from the bottom. In the next few years we may be short of food, short of clothing." But Sukarno's flamboyance was gone, his melodramatics unconvincing. His audience listened, unmoved...
...irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference--to keep to the more general term--is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world... It is also true that, we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to call "the world," our estimate of the real world, as we argue from a part to the whole, may naturally...
Grants totalling $171,000 to the University for support of short-term research were announced by the National Science Foundation yesterday...