Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One month ago President Eisenhower, spurred by the Steelworkers' David McDonald and others, was ready to go into action with the Government's depression-fighting machinery, including: stepped-up public works and liberalized Government-lending and Federal Reserve Board credit policies. But no sign of drastic pump-priming...
"We needed both unity and constructive thought to win that election," wrote Morrison. "Instead, we were afflicted with trouble over the so-called Bevanites. Now," Morrison went on, coldly referring at all times to his opponent as "Mr. A. Bevan," "we have had the open conflict on the front bench...
His left leg taped up after a riding mishap, Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey hobbled into the Executive Office Building in Washington one morning last week to speak to an annual Governors' Conference on the state of the U.S. economy. Humphrey was quick to point out that...
When Associate Professor W. J. Bate came to Harvard in 1935, he faced two very pressing problems: how to get through his freshman year without any money, and how to attend classes while working his way through college. Since the country was still in the Depression, Bate had to balance...
Across the Pacific. Through the '30s, M-K worked on big dams: Bonneville (on the Washington-Oregon line), Imperial. Grand Coulee (Washington), a total construction effort of more than $300 million. M-K built the San Francisco side of the 4,620-ft. Bay Bridge, upped its railroad work...