Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gravest foreign intervention since Viet Nam (which, considering the difference in magnitude in the two situations, is misleading); the current recession is the worst since the Great Depression (which takes no account of how much worse the Depression was or of economic cushions built in since the 1930s...
...planes. Forty years later no fewer than 3,000 of them are still flying as far afield as Burma, Canada and some parts of the U.S. A twin-engine work horse that flew coast to coast in an unheard-of 15 hours in the late 1930s, the DC-3 was the first American aircraft to turn a profit from passengers only. It was also the first to offer heated cabins, soundproofing and power brakes...
Like the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, the Angolan civil war has become an arena of major-power rivalry. The Soviet Union has shipped large quantities of arms and supplies to the former Portuguese colony-everything from armored cars to electric generators-and giant Antonov 22s fly every day to Luanda, the capital of the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). Some 3,000 Cubans have been fighting on the leftist side for weeks, and U.S. intelligence now says Havana has increased its force to something close to 5,000 men. In addition, U.S. officials...
...prophecies of significant improvement is a true measure of the savagery of the economic storms that have shaken the U.S. in the past two years, culminating in the slump that made 1975 a year for the history books-the year of the most widespread joblessness since the 1930s...
...most American film producers has been "entertainment." Hollywood is interested almost entirely in showing audiences a good time, recycling traditional plots and characters, concentrating on star quality. What is most eagerly sought after is the glistening surface and full-throttle frivolity that characterized Hollywood films of the 1930s...