Word: unsoundness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make forecasts of business activity and if they do intelligent businessmen do not take them seriously. . . . This country is in thoroughly rotten shape. It is sick to the core with economic disorders and political diseases. In essence they are the result of more than 20 years of unsound economic policy and false economic thinking persistently pursued by both Government and the business community. . . . I believe we are now in a major depression which involves the possibility of a break-down of our economic and political organization. The chances are overwhelming that inflation will be resumed. ... I think it is beyond...
...hand, too secretive about his technical developments and, on the other, too attentive to publicity and commercialization. They say that the scientific use of hydroponics should be to learn more about the physiology of plants, that its commercial possibilities are not proved, that it is unsound to compare water-grown with soil-grown crops on the basis of acre for acre yield...
...view that business regulation is inevitable, the assembled bankers unanimously agreed with President Hall when he accused the undistributed profits tax and the capital gains tax of being the major hurdles in the path of future financing volume. Said he: "Something could be done by Congress about these two unsound methods of taxation which in effect offer immediate cash prizes for the conduct of one's business and personal affairs in a manner which otherwise would be contrary to all rules of prudence and common sense...
...holding the Election of December 12, the nation-wide census of the Soviet Union taken last year would have come in handy, except that the Soviet Government recently rejected this immense fruit of statistical labor in toto, announcing that it was "grossly unsatisfactory and based upon clearly unsound statistical practices.'' Nonetheless every Soviet editor was busy preparing to announce on December 13 that some 100,000,000 Russians have voted -census or no census, pencils or no pencils, pulp or no pulp...
...committee has rapidly expanded. By February, its chairman is better fitted to deal with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...