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Willard Long Thorp

(Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992)

Title: Monopoly Committee told huge corporations control American business. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. Dr. Willard Thorp, Dun and Bradstreet Economist now with the Commerce Department, today by means of charts and graphs pictured to the Temporary National Economic Committee how American business is one of tightly concentrated power and assets in the hands of huge corporations. Thorp said about one fifth of the total business enterprises disappear each year at the rate of 1150 a day
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Willard Long Thorp (May 24, 1899 – May 10, 1992) was an American economist and academic. He served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs. He helped draft the Marshall Plan and was also prominent in business and education. (From Wikipedia)

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Books by Willard Long Thorp:

Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Elements of European Recovery: Address by Willard L. Thorp. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Before the National Industrial Conference Board, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, Thursday, January 22, 1948 (Dept. of State publication 3041 (Economic cooperation series #14); 1948) (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by Willard Long Thorp in the extended shelves:

Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Business annals: United States, England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Australia, India, Japan, China (National bureau of economic research, inc., 1926), also by Wesley C. Mitchell and Hildegarde E. Thorp (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Cyprus: suggestions for a development programme (United Nations, 1961), also by Cyprus (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Economic institutions (The Macmillan company, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Increase of population in the United States, 1910-1920. A study of changes in the population of divisions, states, counties, and rural and urban areas, and in sex, color, and nativity, at the fourteenth census (Govt. Print. Off., 1922), also by William Sidney Rossiter and LeVerne Beales (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: The integration of industrial operation : a statistical and descriptive analysis of the development and growth of industrial establishments and of the size, scope and structure of combinations of industrial establishments operated from central offices (Govt. print. off., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: International economic problems ; selected statements [and] United nations resolutions. September 21-December 12, 1948. (Dept. of State, 1949), also by United States Department of State Office of Public Affairs and United Nations. General Asembly 1948-1949) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: The price study. (Consumers Division, National Recovery Administration, 1934), also by Walton Hale Hamilton, William M. Blaisdell, George Marshall, Florence Till, Clem C. Linnenberg, Irene Till, Albert Abrahamson, and United States. National Recovery Administration. Consumers' Division (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Problems of United States foreign economic policy (U.S. G.P.O., 1947) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Questions based on economic problems in a changing world (Farrar & Rinehart, 1939) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thorp, Willard Long, 1899-1992: Structure of industry (U.S. G.P.O., 1941), also by Walter F. Crowder and United States. Congress. Temporary National Economic Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

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