单选题 .  The president appeals to labor and management to hold down wages and prices, but says not a word about any controls to be imposed by the Government.
    The business and financial community has been given     1    that interest rates will soon be lowered, and that this particularly will     2    money available for more activity in new housing. Nobody in the Administration, however, is     3    specifically just when the high interest rates will     4    down.
    Paul W. McCracken, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, in a press conference on March 17, said that he does not     5    the country is running into a     6    .
    Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has been     7    that the     8    money policy will have to be relaxed in order to prepare the     9    for a decline in interest rates.
    It is apparent,     10    , that uncertainty     11    even in Government circles, and that experimentalism     12    a reliance on past experience in     13    with wages and prices has been reason why the nation has been drifting into a depression.
    Evidently there will be no effort to impose wage and price controls     14    the political consequences are feared. So the     15    are that the Administration will try a new     16    to manage what it considers a slowdown by     17    just a little more inflation. This is a risky way to handle an economy which has a     18    national product of more than $950 billion.
    Anyway, officials hope that their corrective measures will stop the slowdown in business and that the economy soon will     19    itself. So, in effect, the soft-spoken     20    of Government today is: "Recession, please go away!"1.