Word: 1930s
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What Dr. Graham stated as proven fact had long been suspected. Beginning in the 1930s, medical statisticians noticed an unusual rise in the number of cases of lung cancer. Part of the apparent increase was due simply to the fact that doctors were becoming more skilled in diagnosis, part to the fact that many more people were living long enough to contract cancer...
...politics is always conducted by using the past record to disclose and correct past mistakes. The Teapot Dome scandal lived for years as an example of Republican laxity toward corruption; it died only when the Republican leaders convinced the country that their attitude had changed. Through the 1930s, the U.S. watched a grim pageant of congressional hearings which dug into banking and brokerage practices that had contributed to the excesses of the boom years...
...international trade. By fall he had settled down to a long career in the Treasury-and an interesting career it was. He was not a great economist. His specialty was international payments, which does not require much theoretical ability but does pose intricate problems, as chess does. In the 1930s, White wrote some rather original memoranda on the modified gold standard, but he published only one book in his life: his Harvard thesis. His consuming interest was not in economics for its own sake but as a path to political power. He once told a friend that he had originally...
After reaching a peak of $2.8 billion in 1929, total British holdings in Canada declined slowly during the 1930s, then rapidly after the outbreak of World War II as the British sold their overseas properties to pay for the war. In 1949, the trend was reversed, and as Britons built up their dollar reserves, they turned once more to Canadian ventures. But Britain, for many years the leading outside investor in Canada, has long since yielded first place to the U.S. The British stake in Canada at the end of 1952: $1.8 billion; U.S. holdings: $8 billion...
...also shaped the early work of such major photographers as Edward Steichen, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, who were to follow divergent paths. Steichen went on to become the first famed glamour photographer, with his work in the early 1930s for Vanity Fair, today is Curator of Photography at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Weston pioneered sharp-focus photography of places and things, and started a naturalistic school, of which the chief disciple is Ansel Adams, regarded as perhaps the finest landscape photographer today...