Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what it thinks it is and wants to be. In a generation of change so rapid that the pace cannot be appreciated, the American self-picture has gone out of focus. The intellectuals, to whom a society looks for its picture, understandably failed to keep up. In the 1930s they were looking backward at the ruin that war, depression and fascism had made of the 19th century's high confidence in rationality, progress and perfectibility. Some clung stubbornly to fragments of the exploded dream. More, resolving never again to be taken in by progress, settled for a program...
...partnership policy is a logical outgrowth of the changes in the private utility industry since the 1920s and 1930s. It was overloaded with promoters of watered stock and failed to supply more power where it was needed. Investment in new facilities from 1926-32 averaged only around $600 million a year. But, today, private utilities are expanding at a purposeful rate. Since 1950, more than $2 billion a year has been invested. Now that private-power men are willing to do their share in meeting power needs, the Administration thinks that they should be given a chance...
...exaggerate and confuse the entire issue of Communism. Said Woltman: "The fact is, there's nothing today like the Red climate in America of ten years ago. The public is alert to the Communist conspiracy . . . The party-liner, who operated openly-and brazenly -in official circles in the 1930s, has disappeared. Communism has lost most of the intellectuals . . . Yet Senator McCarthy continues to use the blunderbuss, firing in all directions at once . . . By his excesses . . . his thumb-in-the-eye tactics McCarthy has completely befogged a major issue...
First a small-town altar boy, then an anticlerical Republican, then a Socialist, Comorera helped found the Catalonian independence movement in the 1930s, a few years later merged it with the Communists and took command. He was Catalonia's Minister of Agriculture and Economy and its strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death...
...early 1930s, a group of young Germans led by Wernher von Braun were playing with rockets on the outskirts of Berlin. Their object: to fly to the moon...