Word: ernment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Businessmen who once decried Gov ernment meddling in the economy also recognize that most federal police powers, e.g., regulation of the stock market, benefit business as well as the consumer. Most businessmen today agree with Du Pont Chairman Walter S. Carpenter Jr. that the anti-trust laws, under which his com pany has been haled into court 22 times, "are fair and should be vigorously enforced." Though some businessmen still argue publicly that the Federal Government should stop regulating business, the majority agree privately that Government intervention is preferable to the economy of the jungle. Says Standard...
...could have a cash deal is crazy." The experience has not diminished Bur ma's determination - as a small country with a thousand-mile Chinese border - to stick to official neutralism, but Burma is now becoming neutral against the Com munists. Already Premier Ba Swe's gov ernment has reversed Burma's decision of three years ago to refuse all economic and technical aid from the U.S. The gov ernment has hired a Chicago manage ment firm to help reorganize its bureauc racy. The U.S. has recently agreed to send technicians to Burma to advise on indus...
...justify his cheer, Weeks read off a bundle of statistics fresh from the Gov ernment's tabulating machines. April employment rose to a new record for the month of 64 million, and the rolls of the unemployed were cut 300,000 to 2,500,000. *Personal income for March climbed to a record annual rate of $315 billion, a gain of $19 billion over last year. Weeks conceded that the economy is showing soft spots in autos and residential construction, but thought there was nothing to worry about. But Weeks-along with Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Presidential Economic Adviser...
Good Motives. At week's end, Jim Hagerty made a backhanded apology to newsmen for "the disadvantages that were placed upon the news-gathering agencies that were observing the [H-bomb] release date. I and other members of the Gov ernment will try to work out, with your help, a system where the chances of this happening again will be eliminated...
...time when the Star - like every U.S. paper - was raising its daily price to meet such increased costs as a near tripling in the price of news print, 185% increase in its labor bill and a 265% tax hike. Roberts bitterly recalled two other cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began to slam away at the corrupt Pendergast machine, which had given Truman his start in politics. The FBI moved in, and 259 politicos were found guilty of vote fraud and ballot-box stuffing. In 1946, the Star...