Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last January General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice boldly announced a new $1 billion expansion program, and predicted that G.M. would build more than 3,000,000 cars and trucks this year. Said Curtice: "No depression is in my vision." Last week, when G.M. issued its report for the second...
As to their emotional makeup, Dr. Dunbar reported: "Centenarians show little tendency toward elation or depression, but they are optimists according to the definition, 'one who believes the future to be still uncertain' . . . They show little need to dominate. They are willing to live and let live. They...
This week at K-25, as always since its beginning, the gaseous uranium flowed endlessly, with full crews at work and no fear of breakdown. In Washington the C.I.O.'s Swisher said, with a slight note of surprise: "I think he [Mitchell] understands and appreciates the problems of people...
The world's swift and calamitous change-the Depression, the rise of Hitler -passed Locarno by. In 1936 Hitler broke the pact by sending German troops into the Rhineland. Neither France nor Britain moved a muscle. Anthony Eden, then as now Britain's Foreign Secretary, while admitting that...
If the weekend mood at rebel headquarters was dedication, the mood in Guatemala City was depression. Food supplies were running short and prices were rising. Police were everywhere. Fear and distrust were in the air. Even high-ranking officers carried submachine guns in their own offices.