Word: slowdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not to say that the basic security legislation is totally bad. But its unimaginative and rigid interpretation has caused considerable slowdown...
...supersonic bomber, brought snorts from the Air Force itself. Reasons: 1) the B-52 depends for support, as the President said, on its jet tankers-but the U.S. now has only 30 such tankers operational, and is getting only four new ones a month under the Administration's slowdown; 2) no production contract for B-58s has yet been announced; and 3) the B58 was considered not as a successor to the long-range B-52 but to the B57 medium-range bomber...
...union leaders for "More!", the Labor Party's top leaders agree on the necessity for wage restraint and monetary controls-but only when combined with price, rent, building and business controls to put the workers in a better mood for restraint. The Conservatives were betting that their intentional slowdown of the economy, without any of Labor's favorite controls, would curb inflation, restore confidence in the economy, the government and the Tory Party's leadership...
...EXPORT SLOWDOWN is coming. Government economists figure that exports will run at annual rate of $18.5 billion in first half of 1958, v. $19.75 billion pace earlier this year...
Detroit's new .cars were not only big news to the industry and its faithful public; they were even bigger news to the U.S. economy. From Wall Street to Main Street, the hopes and fears of those fretting about a business slowdown (see Wall Street) focused around the new models and gave renewed emphasis to the old saying: "As the new cars go, so goes the new year." Exaggerated as that might be, the eagerness with which the public buys the new cars may well mean the difference between a good or a great year for U.S. business...