Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After World War II, however, the Farm Bureau began to have second thoughts. In 1947, when aging Ed O'Neal retired, the strongest farm lobby in the U.S. replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression...
Mickey has worked business miracles. During the Depression the Lionel Corp., manufacturer of toy trains, was rescued from receivership by the prodigious sale (253,000 items) of a handcar carrying figures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The Ingersoll people were pulled out of a bad financial hole by a terrific...
For centuries the Scots have been forced to be proud of their disadvantages -they have so many of them. There is their climate, whose rains make stone walls sweat with cold damp, and whose glinting sunlight fleetingly transforms forbidding rocks into some of the world's loveliest scenery. There...
Scots at first tested their new prosperity as cautiously as thin ice. They had been prosperous before. In the late 19th century, coal and iron built Glasgow into Britain's second largest city (a rank now contested by Birmingham), and Scots flocked down from their hill farms until a...
As early as 1932 the Alumni Bulletin ran an article on the commuters called "The Untouchables," at that time a totally neglected 28% of the college. The depression slump had tightened about the commuting student and offered him little opportunity to escape into Lowell's house system, then beginning to...