Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More interesting than the predictable was the anti-Eisenhower sentiment that welled up outside the South. While the overwhelming majority of U.S. editors agreed that Orval Faubus left Eisenhower no choice but to use force to preserve the integrity of the nation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), several influential dailies outside the South looked at Eisenhower's motives with a new brand of cynicism that lacked even the compulsion of Southern war wounds. Indiana's biggest paper, Eugene C. Pulliam's right-wing Indianapolis Star, accused the President of "a deliberate effort to placate the Negro vote." The ordinarily...
FIRST U.S. SUPERMARKET in a Communist country proved such a thumping success at Zagreb Fair that Yugoslav government's export-import agency will buy the market's refrigerator display cases, prepackaging equipment, shopping carts and checkout stands for about $30,000, use them to start supermarkets of its own. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslavs trooped through U.S. supermart during 15-day fair...
Slichter finds considerable agreement from Harvard's Professor Alvin Hansen, who maintains also that the word inflation is often misused, notably as it applies to the U.S. It is inexcusably "loose," says he, to call what happened in Germany after World War I inflation and also use inflation to describe the "comparatively moderate price rises in U.S. history." The German case was "pure inflation" because there was no offsetting increase in output, reinvestment and in per-capita real income. What has happened in the U.S., says he, is something quite different. The best way to describe it is "price...
...stop. Sales of fixed-income bond issues are booming. The commodity market, classic escape for capital in inflationary periods, is in the doldrums. Washington officials see a chance that the September consumer price index figures will show no rise over August because of the seasonal drop in used-car and food prices. Eventually they expect that inflation will begin to creep again. To keep it from accelerating to a gallop, both sides agree on the need for wise use of credit and fiscal controls. Says Slichter: "The greatest danger confronting the economy today is that political pressure will force abandonment...
...other formall Doctors are, he had known no more than they [for] Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers of the Advancement of Learning ... He was wont to say that man was but a great mischievous Baboon ... He kept a pretty young wench . . . which I guesse he made use of ... as King David did ... After his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out . . . 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained ... I was at his Funerall, and helpt to carry him into the Vault...