Word: 1930s
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...squeeze between the higher costs of fertilizers and fuels and what they considered the low Common Market support prices. The fluctuations of the international monetary market and tight credit forced five banks in West Germany and one in Austria to close their doors, raising the specter of a 1930s avalanche of bank failures...
...unemployment. These conditions, if allowed to fester, could eventually produce massive disillusionment with Europe's seemingly powerless democratic institutions. The specter of such disillusion makes many Europeans edgy. For widespread despair would no doubt encourage the demagogues of the extreme right and left, as it did in the 1930s, to try to impose their own kind of repressive solutions...
...Economist, a London weekly noted for judicious, unhysterical appraisals, predicts that the years 1974 to 1976 will probably be remembered as years of depression. In the U.S., a Gallup poll published last month found that 46% of adults feared a depression similar to the classic one of the 1930s. Oddly, such apprehension was more prominent among younger people, who have no personal memories of the disaster of 40 years ago, than among the middleaged...
Died. Stanton Griffis, 87, Wall Street financier and diplomat who built a large fortune in investment banking in the 1920s and 1930s as doctor to sick corporations (Paramount Pictures, among others), then went on to a second career in Government service, including a stint in 1951-52 as the Truman Administration's Ambassador to Spain, where he fought successfully for a reversal of Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Franco regime; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
These manglings of Gaelic were once the common language of Brooklyn cabbies, policemen and longshoremen -not to mention baseball fans. One linguistically memorable day at Ebbets Field in the 1930s, when Dodger Pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time...