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...national economy is likely to undergo a period of expansion n 1955, rather than continued contraction, Lamont University Professor Sumner H. Slichter predicted yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slichter Forecasts Improvement In American Economy During 1955 | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

...color television still in their infancy, and with new consumers being born at the rate of 10,700 a day, most economists believe that it would be difficult indeed for the U.S. economy to become stagnant. What has actually happened, in the view of Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter and others, is that the U.S. economy has become so complex-and strong-that the parts no longer necessarily move in the same direction all at once. In the future, different industries may have their individual ups and downs, but built-in props (e.g., pension plans, long-term management planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF THE ECONOMY-: Politics Makes It the Major Issue | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Sumner Kaplan, Democratic candidate for State Representative, will address tonight's meeting, and it is possible that Furcolo's manager, Chuck Mahoney, will be present. The Radcliffe branch of the Students for Democratic Action will also attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Union to Discuss ADA List Omitting Furcolo, Murphy | 10/13/1954 | See Source »

...characteristics of a generation of fruit flies, and in the humanities course their discussion ranged from early Greek metrical forms to a comparison of a Beethoven string quartet and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. In social studies they have sampled everything from De Tocqueville to William Graham Sumner. But however tough the work, they seem to thrive. Says Chicago's Assistant Professor Guy Omer Jr. of his science class: "I drew the lessons from our third-year college work, and this bunch of high-school kids has on the whole done as well in five weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Stretch | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Prompt Response. Adviser Burns was there to answer recent charges by Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter that the Administration had done too little to combat recession. On the contrary, said Burns, it had done a great deal, notably in loosening credit and cutting taxes. The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Chronic Optimist | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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