Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counter-culture's ideal, in part by focussing snidely on the left's most visible and fickle wing, the "children of the rich." The academic-turned-politician also evasively classified the critique of the discontent within a broad framework of Western development, comparing the present to the late 1930s and 40s, periods in which, he claimed, intellectuals in the West were disaffected with "'bourgeois' values such as liberty and democracy." Thus the left's critique of the United States can remain merely a negative phenomenon, without any alternative vision for the future, and--because the protesters were supposedly a Western...
Spiraling inflation was the major factor that turned the 1971-73 boom years into the worst global recession since the 1930s. Two of the hallmarks of the last inflation are once more highly visible: rising commodity prices (one key index has climbed 30% since last November) and sharp increases in the money supply in some countries, notably France (where it is currently growing at an annual rate...
...changed every few years, but the basic principle was clear in the quotas set for the British (about 34,000), Italians (3,800) and Chinese (105). Even in the Hitler era, when millions needed a sanctuary, the U.S. admitted only about 115,000 refugees from Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s...
...experts are beginning to see other images in the welter of statistics. The most important is that during this recession, most of the people who were unemployed soon went back to work. That old picture, first from Europe and then from America in the 1930s, of huddled misery, month after month, year after year, was wrong. It could be, when we finally write the definitive analysis of this period, that as few as half a million people who were employable, who really wanted and sought jobs, and who had really been unemployed long enough to undergo hardship, were still...
...land for the park was sold to the city in the 1920s and 1930s by the estate of former Texas Governor James S. Hogg. There was one proviso: if the land was ever used for other than "park purposes," it would revert to the estate. To sidestep that restriction, the Governor's daughter, Ima Hogg, signed over the estate's drilling rights shortly before her death last year to an old friend, George R. Brown, president of Brownco Inc., a Houston-based drilling company...