Word: children
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While many a U.S. citizen worried, when he had the time, about strikes, the cold war, his burden of taxes and his children's prospects for the future, a noted U.S. economist sat down to consider what the future really seemed to hold in store for the country...
Remember 1900. "Suppose," he said, "someone in the year 1900 had predicted that within 50 years the amount of goods consumed per person in the United States would have risen two and one-half times, that nearly four out of five children of high school age would be in high school, that the number of university students would increase four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world...
...Dwyer held to his attitude of grand disdain. He admitted that a few wire rooms were running, but he had 300 cops chasing bookies and could not in good conscience spare more for the job. The taxpayers' children, he intoned, had to be helped across dangerous streets. As for the slums-the Republican, Morris, had only recently discovered them. "I," said the ex-Cop O'Dwyer, "lived in them...
...Locomotive God. Loewy first dreamed of building cars and locomotives in Paris, where he was born and spent the first 26 years of his life. His father, Maximilian, was a Viennese journalist; his mother, Marie Labalme, a sturdy Frenchwoman who prodded her children by continually telling them: "Better to be envied than pitied." Young Raymond, the third of three sons, filled his school notebooks with so many sketches of locomotives, automobiles and airplanes that his parents sent him to engineering school...
...make some good guesses about how they exist. The dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...