Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working married vets set new high standards of academic achievement. "They knew how to move," says a Harvard dean, "and they moved." They more than doubled the number who, by prewar standards, would have been trained for the professions: 168,000 doctors and dentists, 105,000 lawyers, 93,000 social scientists and economists, 238,000 teachers, 440,000 engineers, 112,000 scientists...
...tough 1959 budget that will halve the deficit by hiking taxes and cutting "social expenditures" (price supports, veterans' pensions, etc.). His drastic action should bring some order to France's tangled finances, at the same time provide funds for massive public investment in both France and Algeria. He promised nothing but a time of trials, but added that "without the effort to restore order," France would be a nation "perpetually oscillating between drama and mediocrity." De Gaulle, who dislikes economics so much, had this time shown himself willing to take it seriously...
...doctoral and six to nine post-doctoral fellowships in the humanities, natural and social sciences...
...classic remedies. They cried for tax cuts, a mammoth government make-work program, many more billions for old-age pensions and unemployment aid. All year long the Eisenhower Administration staunchly resisted temptations to buy its way out of recession, although it speeded up and enlarged present housing and social security programs as antirecession measures. It gave the economy's carefully built-in stabilizers a chance to work and relied on the nation's own basic good health to recover from the slump...
...slump in manufacturing spread. And there the economy's built-in cushions proved their value in helping keep personal income ($353.3 billion) at record levels. As labor incomes slipped $6.2 billion by April, chiefly from the declines in autos. and thus in steel, payments from unemployment insurance, pensions, social security, etc.. automatically climbed $5.5 billion (to $26.1 billion annually) and took up the worst of the slack. Increasing federal, state and local outlays for needed schools, hospitals, dams and roads helped keep construction growing to a record $48.8 billion. The 1957 housing slump was turned around...