Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivia and Colombia. In the rarefied air of La Paz, the 11,900-ft. high capital of Bolivia, even the strongest auto passes on after a mere 15 years or so. And in Colombia most cars are likewise postwar models. Very few cars were imported in the 1920s and 1930s, because in those days Colombia had scarcely any paved roads...
...Dowling is credited with popularizing the all-glass door in the 1930s, is now at work on a new kind of facing brick, a vibrationless pavement breaker, 16-power binoculars that telescope to transistor-radio size...
...angry young artists who came to maturity in the 1930s, few seemed angrier than Philip Evergood, his voice still booms, his eyes go wide, his his hands and arms slash the air. And some of his paintings still roar with indignation. But by last week when when Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opened its first Evergood retrospective show, the famed anger had mellowed into something hauntingly gentle...
Though there are more U.S. capital-punishment states today than at the low point of 1917, capital punishment is waning in practice in the U.S. as it is in Western Europe. During the 1930s, civil executions in the U.S. averaged 167 a year; during the 1950s, the average was down to 72. Last year only 49 civil executions were carried out in the U.S., one more than the alltime low recorded in 1958. Women are virtually exempted from the death penalty: not one was executed in the U.S. in 1958 or 1959, and only 31 have been executed over...
Maggie Rudkin speaks from experience. The attractive, red-haired wife of Henry Rudkin, a prosperous Wall Street broker, she lived a life of ease and social grace on their Pepperidge Farm (named after pepperidge, or black gum, trees on the property) near Fairfield, Conn. Then in the mid-1930s, the youngest of her three sons became ill with asthma. An admitted "nut on proper food for children," Mrs. Rudkin knew that asthma is an allergy, was nonetheless convinced that she could help her son by building him up. She dug out a whole-wheat-bread recipe left by her Irish...