Word: whether
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic 2-B dispute has been befogged by both sides: by McDonald's charges that the steel industry is out to "bust the union," and by the industry's failure to explain its case to the public. But behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government...
...Paul Hoffman, pioneer administrator of the Marshall Plan and now managing director of the United Nations Special Fund, saw a need for a coordinated global effort to replace sporadic philanthropy. Said Hoffman: "All countries, whether their incomes are high, medium or low, must in their own self-interest accept proportionate responsibility for a rapidly expanding world economy...
...Whether the amusement-type machines also will be removed will be decided shortly. The Licensing Board's reason for refusing to reissue licenses was an Internal Revenue tax of $250 on the bino-type machines. A ten dollar tax, however, has been levied on the amusement type...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, supported Kennedy along with Galbraith and three others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
...imparts to his line the freedom one would expect of an ink drawing, while still retaining that rugged quality essential to a woodcut. His style, usually a decorative realism, varies with the mood and subject matter; but in almost every print Amen succeeds in evoking his desired effect, whether it be that of power or of mere cuteness...