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International Socialist Review, Spring 1958

 

Watch that Language

 

From International Socialist Review, Vol.19 No.2, Spring 1958, p.41.
Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

At his press conference last week President Eisenhower referred, no doubt inadvertently, to the present economic doldrums as a “depression.” So far, at least, the description doesn’t fit. Things are pretty bad – terrible, in fact, for the four to five million unemployed – but a real-scale depression has yet to show up.

N.Y. Times, March 2

 
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