Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The events at Bonn and Bangkok made up a week of such notable progress that it was easy to view without alarm or depression the evacuation of Chinese Nationalist forces from Nanchi Island off the China coast. Nanchi has little or no military significance. If the Communists try to pursue...
Passport to Prominence. In the depth of the Depression, George Craig went to Brazil to practice law with his father, and took whatever he could get-potatoes, meat, eggs and, once, three runt pigs-in lieu of cash fees. He became G.O.P. Chairman of Clay County, tried to get the...
The industry has come full circle since the '20s, when boom talk lured it into its last expansion. In the mid-'30s, Depression winds cooled its kilns; as private and public construction slumped, plants all over the nation shut down and production dropped to less than 30% of...
* Its original name was the Livestock Pavilion of the No. 1-A District Agricultural Association. But a Depression-days newsman wrote bitterly: "While people are being evicted from their homes and are walking the streets, a palace for cows is being built in Visitacion Valley." Cow Palace it has been...
Actually, Fair Trade laws were never designed for a booming economy with an expanding market. They gained momentum during the Depression, when the National Recovery Administration fixed prices to halt price cutting in the fight for a limited market. In 1937 the National Association of Retail Druggists, a powerful lobby...