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...keeping with its general timidity, it treated the "dollar gap" as the basic problem, and closing the gap as the solution. By doing so, it inadvertently gave aid and comfort to protectionists, who now argue that tariff reduction is unnecessary because the dollar gap is already closed (see chart). Data in the Randall commission's own recently published staff papers show that in 1953 U.S. imports ($17 billion) actually outran U.S. nonmilitary exports ($16.9 billion). But the dollar gap closed in 1953 only because foreign countries slashed their imports from the U.S., apart from military aid, by more than...
...wilderness with folk gods from their own history," and these gods have been constantly invoked and manipulated to suit present convenience. "Americans," says Woodward, "use their history as a substitute for political theory . . ." Instead of abstract principles, "we have sought our values, the meaning of our experience and a chart for the future in our history. The assumption has always been that there is in our past a sort of proto-American theory that, if properly understood, will prove adequate to all exigencies...
...small, multicolored chart tacked up in the School of Design outline a new plan that will revitalize architecture for the undergraduate. The six column chart, beginning with the sophomore year and extending through Design School, typifies the School's new close connection with the College...
...trouble is that the Government uses three basic methods to chart the ebb and flow of U.S. unemployment, and all three need improvement. All are limited surveys and wide open to errors of interpretation. Of the three, the most important-and most controversial-is the Census Bureau's total count of the U.S. labor force (currently about 62 million over the age of 14). The bureau first checks a tiny, carefully chosen sample of the U.S., only 25,000 households in 68 key areas. Then it mathematically projects the figures on the size of the labor force...
Stalking the elusive current patterns of the Gulf Stream and mapping the bottom of the Atlantic, the Atlantis has made voyages totalling almost a million miles, which when mapped on a chart look, like a huge spiderweb across the ocean with its focus at Woods Hole. Assisted by the Caryn, a ninety-seven foot ketch that goes on the shorter cruises, the boats often spend 250 days each year...