Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most difficult problems do not occur in the search for form," Aalto says, "but rather in the attempt to create forms that are based on real human values." The bold, simple form of the Paimio sanatorium thrust Aalto into the vanguard of European functionalism in the 1930s. But that straightforwardness gradually changed as he won other commissions for everything from furniture to factories to whole towns, mostly in Finland. Over the years, his buildings have grown ever more intricate and idiosyncratic, taking odd, seemingly arbitrary shapes. But their genesis-profound thoughtfulness leavened by the free play of emotion-has never...
Died. James Jewell, 69, early radio producerdirector; of a heart attack; in Chicago. While working for WXYZ in Detroit during the 1930s, Jewell produced, wrote and directed both the early Lone Ranger series and The Green Hornet. Kee-Mo-Sah-Bee, Tonto's greeting to the masked Ranger, derived from the name of a boys' camp owned by Jewell's father-in-law. Jewell's later credits include The Black Ace and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, a long-running saga that exhorted teen-agers to eat Wheaties...
...recession that has now mercifully ended produced the worst earnings slump since the 1930s: between the third quarter of 1974 and the first quarter of this year, after-tax profits of the nation's corporations plunged 34%. Now there is solid evidence that the decline has at long last hit bottom. Manhattan's First National City Bank reports that during the second quarter, after-tax earnings of 912 large manufacturing firms rose 10% above the first quarter. Profits of nonmanufacturing companies, such as banks, utilities and retail chains, increased...
...figure was as exact as statistical techniques can make it. Surprised Administration economists still think the rate might go up again in August; but even if it does, that will not alter the conclusion, now widely held among economists, that the nation's worst recession since the 1930s is definitely over...
...already said that they are preparing such measures, and we are pressing very strongly for further reflationary action by the United States and Japan. The world is at a turning point where such reflation could galvanize world trade because it is a slump in world trade, unprecedented since the 1930s, which has created the worst industrial depression since the '30s. I shall certainly be discussing this with President Ford when we meet together in Helsinki next week. As a big trading nation, we have set ourselves very strongly against physical import controls. But we are not going...