Economic Forces in the USA in Facts and Figures1957 |
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agriculture annual Automobile average number benefits Berkeley Bureau of Labor CALIFORNIA LIBRARY capita Census cities clerical-worker families Consumer Consumer Price Index consumption cooperatives covered death decade Department of Commerce Department of Labor disability dollars dwelling units Economic Electric employees employment equipment estimated expenditures exports Fabricated metal farm Federal Government figures Food foreign gross national product household immigration imports income tax increase industry group injuries kilo labor force Labor Statistics laws less machinery man-hour manufacturing ment million mining nonagricultural nonfarm nonwhite Note OASI occupation Old-Age and Survivors output paid payments pension period persons petroleum plans ploy ployees population pounds production workers programs public assistance retirement Rural salaried workers self-employed semiskilled Source TABLE terminations of employment thousands tion U. S. Department unions UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA urban wage and salaried week weekly earnings women workmen's World War II
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Seite 182 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence, she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Seite 182 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Seite 182 - More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and the skill to relieve the suffering of these people.
Seite 182 - We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of under-developed areas.
Seite 160 - Congress declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means...
Seite 182 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Seite 160 - Report") setting forth (1) the levels of employment, production, and purchasing power obtaining in the United States and such levels needed to carry out the policy...
Seite 106 - engaged in scientific work ... at a level which requires a knowledge of ... physical, natural or mathematical sciences equivalent at least to that acquired through completion of a 4-year professional college course.
Seite 85 - Survey of Consumer Finances conducted by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in cooperation with the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan.
Seite 160 - State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining...