Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Center for Health Statistics reported last week that the American fertility rate dropped in July to the lowest monthly level since the late 1930s. While the birth rate is still 2.5 per couple-.4 above the optimum sought by advocates of zero population growth-the figures suggested that the concept of family planning is taking firmer hold...
...Ever since the 1930s, Texas Democrat Wright Patman has been fulminating to bring the Federal Reserve System under tighter Government control. As it is, the Fed is a unique agency that, by design, is not subject to congressional appropriations or Government audit. It pays its own way largely out of interest earned on federal securities. The intention was, and is, to give the Fed a measure of independence from political control...
...brisk in cards that featured subjects ranging from birds to Presidents. Such variety is particularly fascinating to Richard Reuss, a teacher of folklore at Detroit's Wayne State University and the owner of a 40,000-card collection. Says Reuss: "They very much reflect American life, from the 1930s when it was G-men and early airplanes, to the '60s when the Beatles and spacemen were popular." Between conventions a great deal of trading is done by mail...
...situation travesties. In Good Life, a stockbroker and his wife (Larry Hagman and Donna Mills) check out of the bourgeoisie for the presumed comforts of becoming scrape-prone butler and cook to an anachronistic family of plutocrats (David Wayne and Hermione Baddeley). The plot smacks of those 1930s films that had fun with the Depression. Teddy Bears attempts to cash in on the nostalgia binge for the by-now-boring '20s, playing the gangland speakeasy scene for slapstick laughs. An apter title for this show would be The Unwatchables...
...consummate practitioner of the suspense-filled cinema sneeze; of a stroke; in North Hollywood. Though he claimed not to have had a cold since 1918 and said that sneezing was only a small part of his repertoire, Gilbert kerchooed his way to stage and screen success in the 1930s and '40s. His 300 films included The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Chaplin's classic Hitler spoof, The Great Dictator...