Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a deepening perception of the potential impact of continued high oil prices: accelerating inflation that indiscriminately threatens both industrial and developing nations; increasing strains on and a collapse of the international banking networks; widespread recessions (or even a worldwide depression) with levels of unemployment unprecedented since the 1930s; and ultimately, perhaps, a corrosion of democratic political institutions. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in private conversations, confided his deep concern about what the spreading economic malaise?caused largely by the high cost of oil?will do to Western Europe's stability. He is especially concerned about possible Communist gains...
...where radical workers would own the factories they labored in. Now the Social Democrats of the Brandts and Schmidts vie with parties of the right and center in a race to see who can most quickly bring down the inflation rate. France is no longer the nation of the 1930s when the Popular Front government of Communists and Socialists stood for economic equality. Now French popular government means either Gaullists or centrists who celebrate the French past rather than work to spread the wealth more equitably among Frenchmen. Britain is no longer the country where a nationwide strike...
...this small town, from the coming of one spring to another, although the true time of all events seems to be rooted in Fellini's imagination. The look of clothes, the political talk and the movies people go to see fix the period in the middle to late 1930s, although a casual remark or reference can alter the time abruptly 20 years into the past or future. There are no fixed boundaries here, just as there is no firm central character. A young man called Titta appears frequently and serves as a kind of unifying autobiographical surrogate...
Work can kill you. Workers have always known it. And from Charles Dickens to Upton Sinclair, gifted writers have assailed the inhumanity of employers who disregard the disease-dealing, injury-inflicting conditions under which their employees labor. Since the 1930s, though, with the rise of powerful unions and the spread of reforms, it has been widely assumed that the health and safety of most workers has been adequately protected, at least in the United States. In many industries that is true enough. Yet death and crippling dangers still threaten to a dismaying degree even behind some of the most streamlined...
Mary's predicament is not unique. From the 1930s into the early 1950s, doctors considered low doses of X ray a safe, effective way to shrink enlarged thymus glands or adenoids and destroy infected tonsils. They used the technique on thousands of small children. But in the early 1950s, after doctors began finding a high correlation between the X-ray treatment and the later development of growths (both benign and malignant) on thyroid glands, they hastily abandoned the procedure. In 1958, Dr. C. Lenore Simpson of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo confirmed their growing fears by reporting...