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...months and then slid again, gliding swiftly and steadily with the rest of the country into the Great Depression. Companies incurred huge layoffs, unemployment skyrocketed, wages plummeted and the economy went into a tailspin. While World War II helped pull the country out of a Depression by the early 1940s, the stock market wouldn't recover to its pre-crash numbers until...
...Psychologists have known since the mid 1940s that one person's perceptions of another's "warmth" is a powerful determining factor in social relationships. Judging someone to be either "warm" or "cold" is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a "cold" person may be more competent. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when infants' conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth surrogate mother rather than one made...
Contrary to popular belief, Keynesian thinking was not a big part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Deficit spending and monetary easing were both first put to work in a really big way by the U.S. government in the 1940s--out of wartime necessity, not economic conviction. The economy responded with rapid growth, and after the war, Keynesianism became gospel. Its central tenet, this magazine explained in its 1965 cover story, was that "the modern capitalist economy does not automatically work at top efficiency, but can be raised to that level by the intervention and influence of the government...
...While call centers have played a prominent role in politics since the 1940s - Richard Nixon worked the phones for his successful 1946 run for the U.S. House of Representatives - automated dialing and message playback weren't perfected until the late 1980s. Since then, thanks to improved technology and decreased cost, the campaign tactic has become the leading method to reach voters. In fact, the Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds of American households in battleground states like Ohio and Florida received robo-calls in the final weeks of the 2006 midterm elections, with some voters receiving as many...
...Damascus Love Thy Neighbor In a joint statement on Oct. 15, one day after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree formally recognizing Lebanese sovereignty, Syria and Lebanon formally established diplomatic ties for the first time since both nations gained their independence in the 1940s. Political and military tensions between the two countries have increased in recent years amid a string of assassinations of anti-Syrian Lebanese officials. International observers are hopeful that the normalization of relations will help bring stability to the region...