Word: economist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise in turn-they were not asked to pick the new faces. Meade asked Philadelphia's bankers, lawyers, doctors and the biggest businessmen in town to help him with his selections, got four candidates of almost unbelievable political purity. The machine found itself running an investment banker and economist for controller, a professor of medicine for coroner, a wealthy meat packer for treasurer, a prominent lawyer for register of wills...
...advanced data which the machine can provide us with will help to enable us to arrive at goals which are "feasible to reach," he said. The economist emphasized that accurate and detailed statistics are not enough to determine a good set of goals for the economy. In a democracy of free people the citizens determine such goals. In so doing they taken into account factors such as the amount and kind of work they prefer and standards of health and diet prevalent among different working groups...
...British official). But more & more, in the face of Britain's dwindling dollar reserves, British opinion itself was pressing for devaluation. It was argued that devaluation was inevitable anyway, and that its delay had become a "psychological" obstacle to traders in the sterling area. London's Economist summoned British "statesmanship" to meet the crisis with "imagination...
...disasters of falling living standards," declared the Economist, "of a collapsing sterling area and a disintegrating Commonwealth against which the government wishes to defend the country are implicit in the policies they are still pursuing. With or without American assistance they will in the near future be compelled to devalue, to cut costs, to increase output and to tackle the problem of productivity...
Wives & War Bonds. The union's case, argued chiefly by Murray and Labor Economist Robert Nathan, was based mainly on the claim that the workers needed more money. Said Murray: "To the wife of any steelworker the high cost of living is a household reality . . . Savings have been depleted. War bonds have been cashed...