Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Prices, the President declared, "now seem at or near a stable level consistent with continued expansion of business activity." (His economic advisers, however, insisted that the recent rise in steel prices was unjustified.) In the expanding economy, the advisers explained, increased productivity should, in general, be passed on to workers in increased wages, rather than to consumers by cutting prices...
...begins with Monique Champin's first visit to Biarritz just after the war. She was 16 then, luscious and very fond of the beach. Her family moved in the upper level of France's famous "200." Her father's fortune was solidly founded in Hants Fourneaux, Forges et Aciéries de Pompey (iron & steel works). Her mother Margot, née Pereire, was rated one of the best-dressed women in Paris; after divorcing Champin, Margot had married Edmund Bory, owner of the Colony-Club, a select oasis for select society near the Champs-Elys...
...cash in on support prices, and the warm winter had increased egg production unseasonally, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan said he had "no alternative." By thus permitting prices to drop, he hoped to step up egg-eating. This week the department began to support eggs at a new level of 37? a dozen v. the 45? average last year. It looked as though even the Department of Agriculture was finally being forced to try a freer market to ease the enormous farm surpluses...
...Publisher Laughlin now runs his mushrooming but so far non-profit-making firm from a bright, sparsely staffed office high above Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He has gained a towering reputation as an incorruptible "esthetic" publisher, while steadfastly maintaining his literary perceptions at the hit-or-miss level of his Harvard days...
...year community colleges, which now teach about 10 percent of students above high school level, should be expanded to take 20 to 30 percent, Conant urged...