Word: 1950s
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...polluting the Everglades, sugar farmers have made their runoff water twice as clean as the legal standard. The $3 billion-to-$8 billion Everglades repair cost is for replumbing the entire water system of South Florida, where the population has grown tenfold since the system's construction in the 1950s, with suburbs pushing out farmland. Sugar farmers have spent millions meeting one of the nation's toughest water-quality standards. Rather than sparing sugar, the 1995 farm bill ended domestic acreage allotments, restricted low-risk loans and created a domestic free market in sugar. The industry has seen radical restructuring...
Novelist E.L. Doctorow, one of the speakers at the NYU rally, compared the Starr investigation to the McCarthyism of the 1950s...
...livestock, boils on people and beasts, hail, locusts and "a darkness that can be touched." Scientific skeptics have assigned them myriad natural explanations, including a comet and a volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. The most ingenious effort is an ecological domino theory proposed in the 1950s by a scholar named Greta Hort: the Nile's many tributaries flood, infesting the great river with blood-red soil from the high plateaus and reddish micro-organisms usually confined to up-country lakes. These micro-organisms poison the fish, whose rotting bodies pollute the frogs' habitats, forcing them...
...1950s and '60s, TIME lionized the Capitalist as Hero in a flock of fact-packed if somewhat breathless cover stories. They were rather typical of the uncritical coverage in this age of conformity and steady growth. The 1955 Man of the Year was General Motors' central-casting CEO Harlow Curtice (he was Hollywood-handsome, tungsten-tough, up-from-the-bottom, etc.); that year, GM also topped FORTUNE's first 500 list. TIME created a sensation by spotlighting the little-known Jean Paul Getty as the world's richest private citizen...
...1950s The U.S. and the dollar reign supreme. The boomer economy fuels construction of homes, schools and highways. e bad news. mutual assured destruction...