Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...public and many of the news commentators seem unwilling to pronounce Sputnik correctly, with the phoneme of the vowel sound of "boot" rather than that of "but." E. G. FLETCHER Austin, Texas
...NATION Grey Mood When it's not Sputnik talk, it's recession talk," grumbled a Chicago teen-ager last week. "Doesn't anyone have fun anymore...
...indeed a somber mood that hung over the U.S. Added to post-Sputnik uneasiness about the nation's technological lead over Russia was uneasiness about the economy. Total personal income in the U.S. had sagged in both September and October, the first two-month decline since the post-Korea recession of 1953-54, and most other economic indexes show signs of droop (see BUSINESS...
Psychology & Sputnik. The uneasy sign in the nation's economic picture is not the statistical droop but the mood. If too many consumers postpone purchases out of worry, shrinkage in sales may bring on a real recession. "Psychology," says Vice President Dr. Arthur A. Smith of Dallas' First National Bank, "is the joker in the economy's deck of cards...
...there is also a wild card: the impending Sputnik impact on defense spending. Defense spending is heading upward -and upward, and the words "deficit financing" are showing up in private Washington talk and responsible editorials. With defense spending on the upswing, the breather, recession, cyclical adjustment, period of hesitation, or whatever, may prove to be only a lull between periods of rising prices, which may or may not be called inflation...