Word: slowdown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans go to bed hungry" by shifting to Secretary of Agriculture Benson's statement that 25 million Americans have inadequate diets. A tax increase in the winter of 1961, Kennedy said, "under present economic conditions," would not be "desirable. In fact, it would be deflationary . . . cause a real slowdown in our economy...
Both the housing and plywood industries blamed their slowdown on a tight money market, but last week the Federal Reserve Bank permitted more banks to expand their lending capacity, continuing a definite easing of money policy that has quietly been taking place...
...with production, they are taking half their current needs from inventory. Appliance, farm-machinery and construction-machinery industries are also raiding their large inventories instead of ordering steel at their production rates. The oil industry is one of the few that are actually using less steel. Because of the slowdown in drilling, it has substantially cut the use of steel for tubing, casing and drill pipe...
...Slowdown. Looking at these signs of strength, top industry and Government economists attending the semiannual meeting of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council forecast that strong consumer demand will carry the U.S. economy through 1960 and the first months of 1961 without any slowdown...
...Korea announced that Syngman Rhee's face would be removed from bank notes. One group of students filed formal charges against Rhee (and 161 former Cabinet ministers and Assemblymen) for "criminal irresponsibility" in rigging the constitution to keep himself in office. Alarmed, Acting President Huh Chung urged a slowdown in the purging, only to be accused by the press of "preserving a corrupt bureaucracy...