Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not argue over who was perfectly right and asks only that the members of the brigade be remembered as fighting fascism when few others would. Current politics and unionism still interest Nelson, but he, like a small, romantic group of American leftists, view those few years in the 1930s as a time of fulfillment, not defeat, and the clumsy poetry of George Orwell still bears meaning to them. Nelson calls the civil war the "high point of my life in the sense that when you had to be counted. I was not afraid to say I was there...
...energy bind, consider the one that Nazi Germany faced in the 1930s: it prepared to fight a world war with no secure reserves of oil at all. The Germans' solution was to make oil from coal, and they did that so successfully that after 1944 (when oil supplies from Nazi-aligned Rumania were bombed out) the Luftwaffe planes flew, and the Reich tanks rolled, almost exclusively on coal-derived gasoline. Could the Nazi know-how help the U.S. three decades later...
...faltered during the finals of the U.S. Clay Court Championships last fall, preventing him from hearing any of the linesmen's calls. He still won, 6-0, 6-0, beating Sam Shore, 71. Bitsy Grant, 66, a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in the mid-1930s, has had cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer of the organization, who three years ago faced surgery to lock his right...
...along in quickstep, an economic recovery steadily gains speed. When one of the marchers lags behind, there are nagging doubts about the recovery's strength. That has been the case since March 1975; the U.S. then began pulling out of its worst recession since the Depression of the 1930s. Consumer spending has moved up, boosting demand for everything from automobiles to pantyhose. But spending by business for such items as machine tools, plants, office buildings and stores has been persistently sluggish. During the first 21 months of recovery, until last December, business investment adjusted for inflation rose...
...first of the old alphabet agencies set up to create jobs in the 1930s was F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which in nine years sent 2.5 million young men to the nation's forests and parklands to cut trails, build fire towers, chop brush and plant nearly 2 billion trees. Last week President Carter proposed in effect to resurrect the CCC as part of a $1.8 billion program to put youths to work...