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...month by month or quarter by quarter to show the relationship of each to the others. Conclusion: the current recession is the shortest and probably the mildest of the three. It is also the recession that proved it a fallacy to consider tax cuts and heavy Government public works pump-priming, either together or separately, as the speediest and surest cure for any business...
...recession levels in ten months, without any reduction in taxes. At the start of the 1949 recession, Government spending was sharply increased, yet employment showed no improvement for eight months. Without such help this time, the strong upturn came in eight months. According to Keynesian theories of countercyclical government pump-priming, 1949's recovery should have come considerably faster than it did, while 1958's should be much slower...
Family Party. Resplendent in white from the peak of his fedora to the toes of his buckskin shoes, Marshal Tito was at dockside to pump Colonel Nasser's hand. Handsome Mme. Tito, buxom in blue silk, embraced Nasser's wife. Bands and cannon boomed. Then, past an honor guard on a street festooned with flowers and the flags of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic, the two Presidents rode in an open Rolls-Royce, followed by their wives in a yellow Cadillac convertible, to the presidential guest house, the cliffside Villa...
...columns come from her own frustrations. When her vacuum cleaner, television set and iron all broke down in a single day, she wrote a scathing column blaming planned obsolescence-and got 500 supporting letters from readers. A product of the '30s, she readily admits that she leans toward pump-priming Keynesian economics and the Democratic Party. "I don't see how anyone could have lived through the Depression and feel differently...
...imperialism," shrilled Nasser's Radio Damascus. Said Radio Moscow: "The Lebanese people have had enough of the American system." In Tripoli Communists and other underground forces won control of the mobs. Saboteurs blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, forcing the company to pump its oil through a branch line in Syria. At the Syrian border, customs guards stopped a suspiciously sagging Chevrolet sedan driven by Louis...