Word: slides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost. Heard on campus the other day-girl student, seriously, to male student: "I couldn't live without my slide rule...
...many businessmen that the risks of deflation outweigh the problems of inflation. He wants the U.S. to understand that just as the Federal Reserve carefully-and correctly-set out to pinch the inflationary bubble off the boom, so it also stands ready to ease credit to help prevent a slide into recession...
...Pure Bunk." The most serious worry for 1958 is the Government's continuing tight-money campaign in the face of an economic slide, however slight. Speaking before the American Finance Conference in Washington last week, White House Economic Advisor Gabriel Hauge assured businessmen that the Administration is ready to cushion any downturn with "flexible policies, adapted to changing conditions." It was flatly untrue, said Hauge, that the Government was out to cause a "little recession," to keep the economy healthy. "I want to label that for what it is-pure bunk. Nor does this Administration believe that a little...
...Cadillacs. In other areas, there is uncomfortable compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public without...
Chundrigar promptly pledged Pakistan's continued loyalty to the anti-Communist Baghdad and SEATO Pacts. But few observers in Karachi believed that his rickety coalition could muster the strength to deal with the nation's slide toward economic chaos. A reliable U.S. ally appeared to be getting weaker, and, because of this weakness, less reliable...