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The Guess-What's-Just-Around-the-Corner Quiz

82. Who said of investment,in May 1973, "We have gone from an expansion to a boomlet to a boom"?

83. What magazine announced, in January 1973, "All signs continue to point to a banner year for the economy"?

84. Who said, in June 1974, "In the remainder of the year output will be rising more rapidly, prices will be rising much less rapidly and the unemployment rate, while it will probably rise further, will not reach a very high level before it recedes"?

85. Who said: "This administration was elected to control inflation..."?

86. Who promised in March 1973: "As far as I'm concerned,this is the las devaluation"?

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87. What magazine recently advised people to buy stocks because "stock prices have gone up when the skirt lengths have shortened--and vice versa"?

88. What skier last month called gasoline taxes"about as dead an option as anything I know?"

89. Who said last month: "We are not in an economic crisis"?

90. Who said: "Prosperity is just around the corner"?

91. In May 1970, President Nixon met with Stock Exchange members alarmed by Dow Jones's sharp decline. At the meeting, what did Nixon cite as the latest reason for confidence in America and optimism about it economy?

92. What president said: "I can't make a damn thing out of this tax problem. I know somewhere there is a book that will give me the truth, but hell! I couldn't read the book"?

93. Which president said: "The man who builds a factory builds a temple. The man who works there worships there"?

94. What did Nixon label "the greatest, most powerful weapon against high prices in the country"?

95. When Karl Marx was a senior in college, what did his father want him to do?

96. Who said: "What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa"?

97. What is a "Hooverville"?

98. What is a "Nixonburger"?

99. Which Harvard president sent students to break the Boston police strike and chaired the commission that upheld the electrocution of Sacco and Vanzetti?

100. Who said: "Students at Harvard don't have to worry about getting jobs when they graduate. Now is you went to Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.then you might have to worry about getting a job, but you don't have to worry here at Harverd"?

There are no easy answers. 1. $1.75 a share. 2. 1052, January 1973 3. 578. 4. $450 million; $1 billion. 5. The Wall Street Journal and Barrons. 6. $1 million. 7. West Germany;6.5 per cent. 8. Marshall Tito, denying that he is a millionaire. 9. $6.7 million apiece--and that's a bargain. 10. $3.75 million over five years. 11. Eleven. 12. Gas, of course. 13. Whether they wanted rooms for sleeping or for jumping. 14. They had a joint account. 15. A free revolver. 16. October 23,1929. 17. He "had a better year." 18. "Begging and other acts." 19. My bonus lies over the ocean, My bonus lies over the sea, Tey gave all the dough to the Frenchmen, And n w they've got nothing for me." 20. Mac Arthur. 21. Hoover. 22. John J. O'Brien. 23. William Randolph Hearst. 24. "It's a lot easier." 25. "Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops." 26. "Courage." 27. The symbol of the NRA. 28. Payless paydays. 29. "Many people have left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples." 30. Nixon. 31. Ford,while meeting with economic advisors at Vail, Colo. 32. Ford, Gas taxes. 33. Inflation. 34. Inflation, recession,and the energy crisis. 35. "Count every penny." 36. Economic summit conference. 37. God. 38. Toil and sweat. 39. Exchange them with neighbors and send them to him. 40. WIN flags. 41. "Share with others." 42. "The spirit of the American people." 43. Good. 44. Whip Inflation Now. 45. Back Again to Hoover. 46. Hoover. 47. Each other." 48. Eliminate them. More pet food for people. 49. 27 per cent. 50. President Ford, addressing the Future Farmers of America. 51. They instructed their servants to see that the clubs' garbage went to the poor. 52. Shirley Temple Black,ambassador to Ghana. 53. Mary Lease, Kansas populist, 1890. 54. "We want beer!" 55. Changing his habits would be bad for morale. 56. "They can learn so quickly with their hands they are like monkeys." 57. Gross National Happiness. 58. Richard Whitney; the New York Stock Exchange. 59. Sing Sing Prison; embezzlement. 60. "How long will it take and how much will it cost?" 61. Wealthy people should have multiple votes. 62. Samuel Insull. The testimony of bankrupt stockbrokers--but he was acquitted anyway. 63. In a poker game. 64. Riding freight cars. 65. Henry Ford II. 66. Buy stocks. 67. John D. Rockefeller. 68. Jojn D. Rockefeller. 69. American big business. 70. Dsitributing dimes among children. 71. He disapproved of the picture of Lenin. 72. He observed that the average Arab oil country makes more in a single day than his family does in a year. 73. Jay Gould, robber baron. 74. Al Capone, gangster. 75. Fear itself; between 14 and 17 million. 76. Hoover, in 1928. 77. The Federal Reserve System. 78. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve System. 79. The company was cited in oil scandals, and stock became worthless within months of Veblen's investment. 80. Nixon. 81. Earl Butz. 82. Walter Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. 83. Time. Other magazines said much the same thing. 84. Nixon. 85. Nixon, in 1973. 86. Federal Reserve Board chairman Arthur Burns. 87. Time. 88. President Ford. 89. President Ford. 90. President Hoover. 91. The American invasionof Cambodia. 92. Harding. 93. Coolidge. 94. "The American Housewife." 95. Go to law school. 96. Charles Wilson,secretary of defense a d GM chairman. 97. A shanty town in the early 1930s. 98. Only F. Donald Nixon knows for sure, probably mostly cereal. 99. A Lawrence Lowell. 100. President Derek C. Bok.

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