Word: 1930s
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...poor, inflation-ridden country. Says one Chilean university economist: "In an underdeveloped country like Chile it is less possible to have a free-market economy than it is in a developed one. It is a question of size and scale." It is also a question of history: since the 1930s the government has tightly controlled key parts of the Chilean economy. Prices and wages have traditionally been set by the government; the major industries have long been monopolies. Competition, the present Chilean government is discovering, cannot be created overnight...
Really Big. Seniors Nick Lemann and Peter Kaplan will read their one-act play, a comedy about the rise and cooptation of two 1930s Hollywood screenwriters, in the Leverett Old Library Theater, Sunday night at 8. It's free, and lasts about 45 minutes. That's it for Harvard shows, but it you're feeling adventurous and want to go beyond the confines of the campus...
Union Maids. A documentary about organizing women workers in the 1930s, this film employs interviews and newsreel footage to create a portrait of the rise of the CIO. We haven't seen this film, to be shown by the Haymarket People's Fund, but it sounds great...
...will be a contest between friends. Kodak manufactured much of Polaroid's film up until 1974. Forever fearful of antitrust actions, Kodak officials were privately delighted to let Polaroid start the instant business. Polaroid Founder Edwin Land has been grateful to Kodak for other reasons. In the 1930s, when Polaroid was a tiny company making light-polarizing sheets (that eventually evolved into the popular sunglasses), Eastman Kodak was among its first customers. Without that deal, there quite possibly would have been no Polaroid instant camera for Kodak to challenge last week...
...this century crime rates have risen and fallen in response to complex forces we do not well understand. Until the FBI began to keep track of crime in the 1930s, there were not even any national figures to show these changes. The FBI Uniform Crime Reports, though imperfect, reveal some remarkable trends. For example, during the 1930s, reported rates of robbery and burglary declined more or less steadily in spite of (or perhaps because of) adverse economic conditions. In the 1960s the reported rates of these crimes rose despite (or again, perhaps because of) general prosperity...