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Milton Friedman, University of Chicago: The trough of the recession will come some time this summer. The rate of change in the money supply turned upward in the middle of last year. Generally there is a lag of about ten to twelve months between such a turn and the trough of a business cycle...
...daily journalism put to a stern test, though he doesn't say so: "There has already been too much talk about 'saving the Tribune.' The Trib has a very sound base to operate on." Still a good daily, the Trib has fallen into an unprofitable trough between the towering New York Times (circ. 644,175), which has most of the class circulation, and the tabloid Daily News (2,021,395). The Sunday Trib is even more in need of rehabilitation - which may be one reason Whitney picked a magazine...
This figure, obtained trough a poll taken Tuesday in all House Dining Halls, constitutes more than 35 per cent of the 927 students who responded, and more than 10 per cent of all the students in the upper three classes...
...they fade over where he is sitting, and brighten at the loading zone he is supposed to take. (If he is dozing and does not get the hint, the old-fashioned public address system still pours in over him.) Jetliners nose in to the terminal like animals to a trough. To enplane, passengers simply walk along a short, level ramp into the aircraft's nose door. The umbrella roof keeps the weather away...
...bright high school seniors from every state in the Union, Jerry walked off with the top $7,500 award in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His winning project: an ion accelerator made of such handy items as a Christmas-tree ornament and a float from a pig watering trough...