Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grapes of Wrath" deals with the misfortunes of Oklahomans in the "dust bowl" of the 1930s...
...days lumbermen had a harsh motto-"Cut and get out"-as they marched across U.S. forests leaving them stumped and stripped. The result was that by the late 1930s the U.S. was in danger of becoming timber-poor, and the lumber industry was under heavy fire from conservationists. Today, lumbermen have a new approach and a new program that promises to produce more trees than ever before. The project: tree farming, under which U.S. forests are as carefully planted, managed and harvested as lettuce and tomatoes. When loggers fell a tree, they make sure a new one grows...
Congressmen have sent worn and tattered Capitol flags to friends for decades. But the practice of running flags up the staff for a moment and then lowering them on a mass-production basis was an innovation of the late 1930s, its author a Congressman impatient at waiting for one of the regular flags to wear out. After World War II, a few newspaper feature stories spread the word, and the souvenir flag market has now gone wild. More than 1,000 flags have been dispatched to congressional constituents in 1954, compared with...
...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...
Died. Hugh Gibson, 71, veteran career diplomat, ranking spokesman (as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Minister to Poland and Switzerland) for American policy in Europe during the 1920s and early 1930s, director of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration; of coronary embolism; in Geneva...