Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, where about 40% of the population falls in the middle-income bracket, there has been little rental housing construction for this group since the '20s. In Manhattan, says one real-estate man, the situation is "impossible." Bostonians can almost count on their fingers the apartment houses for middle-income families going up in their city. Apartment construction for middle-income dwellers in Philadelphia is at a virtual standstill. The National Association of Home Builders insists that the national need for such housing is so acute that it "could reach emergency proportions...
...latest book (A Fourth of a Nation; McGraw-Hill, $4.50) Woodring takes a hard look at both the educationists and their critics, offers a sensible compromise of his own. The so-called "new education" that developed out of the progressive revolt of the '20s and '30s, says he, "can no more survive unchanged in the second half of this century than the classic thesis in the first half; the time has come for a new synthesis...
Peanuts & Promises. Dio, who made a name for himself in his 20s as a strong-arm thug when he and an uncle muscled into the garment trucking industry, worked his way (after a stretch in Sing Sing) up into the labor rackets in a queer way. First he ran a few little dress-manufacturing shops. Then he took over a New York local of the foundering United Auto Workers (A.F.L.). With help from Jimmy Hoffa as well as the union's International Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Doria, Dio surrounded himself with mobsters who had grown tired of robbery, bookmaking...
After farm prices sank in the '20s and '30s, the New Deal bolted together the prototype support machinery. Far from dismantling it and building a sounder model as the Depression gave way to postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from...
...major acting burden fell on others, while Newcomer Novak managed to scale the heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with tigerish passion, and died at 35 in a gutterdam-merung of hooch and heroin...