Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significant that in the 1930s, when there was a "threat" of farm-worker organization, the Associated Farmers, a growers' outfit, was set up to fight farm labor organization, with funds from all the big corporate names in California...
Astrophysicists had postulated the existence of neutron stars in the 1930s but had despaired of ever discovering them; they were too small, scientists felt, for their light to be detected from earth. Hewish's observations confirmed that these strange bodies, conceived in the mind of man, really exist in the far reaches of space...
Died. Edward Vincent Sullivan, 73, gossip columnist ("Little Old New York") for the New York Daily News and TV impresario nonpareil; of cancer of the esophagus; in Manhattan. Sullivan began as a sportswriter in the 1920s, moved to the Broadway celebrity beat in the 1930s and dabbled as master of ceremonies in vaudeville. In 1948, CBS tapped him as host of a variety show the network launched on a shoe-string budget; Sullivan hired Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at $200 for his opener. Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show) was gored by critics but cherished...
...their only role in the Administration's war against inflation has been to lose, and lose disastrously. Hammered by both out-of-control costs and the tight-money policies that the Administration counts on to curb them, the housing industry has staggered into its deepest slump since the 1930s. That collapse has deep social as well as economic implications; it is crimping the vaunted mobility of U.S. life by forcing millions of families to stay put in their present quarters. The more spacious houses or apartments that they had hoped to move into either have been priced beyond their...
...drive to build a kind of historical mythology out of the music of the recent American past. He sings of grifters and gamblers, outlaws and farmers, offers reflections on taxes, infidelity, the lot of the poor man, and occasionally includes moral injunctions like the following, from an early 1930s tune called Denomination Blues by a singing preacher named Washington Phillips...