Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy. Things seemed out of control to many Americans, and there was a disturbing sense that conditions might soon get even worse. Indeed, nearly one out of two feared that there was no way that the U.S. could avoid an economic depression as serious as the one in the 1930s...
Despite such regional woes as America's Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the world's major agricultural areas have enjoyed an unparalleled record of beneficent weather for the past half-century. It has been "the most abnormal period in at least a thousand years," says Reid A. Bryson, director of the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Environmental Studies. Temperatures were surprisingly high, and the warmth fostered plant growth in normally well-watered areas, while some deserts shrank under the influence of regular rainfall...
Probably the most serious charge of vehicular homicide of the senses can be brought against The Manhunter (CBS, Wednesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.). Ken Howard plays a rural private eye of the 1930s as if he were afraid that sudden mobilization of his facial muscles would crack his handsome lines. Luckily the scripts require him to do little more than slip behind the wheel of what bad old novels described as a "high-powered" car and set off on cross-country chases after the current episode's miscreants. For variety, there are many closeups of the car's head...
...press time this morning, it appeared that 36 of the 50 states--and nine of the ten most populous ones--would have Democratic governors, the widest Democratic margin in governors since the 1930s...
...bitter one. The last decade has seen little relief from the violence, corruption and broken promises of the past from all sides. The intensity and duration of the struggle indicates the depth of workers' need for a union, a need that has been apparent at least since the 1930s. But not all unions are alike. The Teamsters are a stand-pat union, a co-opted reactionary force whose interest in organizing farmworkers is dubious at best...