Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people . . . know what it was like in the South in the 1930s ... the backward farms ... the struggling businesses ... the bank failures. What a difference today. I know the New Deal and the Fair Deal have done more for the South than any other national administration in ... history." He talked of new factories, rehabilitated farms, the blessing of rural electricity, of new homes and healthy children. "Remember . . . this year when you see & hear the storm of political propaganda that will [be used] to try to turn back the clock." He spoke four times during the day and flew back to Washington...
...committee gave its answer. A 226-page report, packed with fascinating quotations from witnesses and documentary exhibits, boiled down to a crushing verdict against the I.P.R.: "The subcommittee concludes . . . that the I.P.R. has been, in general, neither objective nor nonpartisan, and concludes further that, at least since the mid-1930s, the net effect of the I.P.R. activities on United States public opinion has been pro-Communist and proSoviet, and has frequently and repeatedly been such as to serve international Communist, Chinese Communist, and Soviet interests, and to subvert the interests of the United States...
...England. But merely nibbling an hour or so off the record would mean little. Ships like the Lusitania and the old Mauretania had guaranteed a 4½day crossing in the early 1900s. The Normandie and the two British Queens had cut it to four days in the 1930s. If she was worth the toil, treasure and time it had taken to build her, the United States had to come significantly closer to airline time...
...this, a spectator on the roof, Eugene J. Houdry, 60, smiled proudly. In the late 1930s French-born Inventor Houdry made himself a millionaire, and created one of the biggest single advances in the oil industry's history, by his invention of the Houdry process of "catalytic cracking."* Now, Inventor Houdry had taken the stench out of Enamelstrip's ovens with some new catalytic magic performed in the company's chimneys...
...most significant changes have to do with shifts of public attitudes. Plays written in the depths of the 1930s depression sometimes have quite an odd sound to ears tuned to 1952's prosperity. In last week's TV version of Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, there was no longer any mention of the fact that one of the leading characters was a confirmed Wobbly. Says Mab Anderson: "People today don't even know what Wobblies...