Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The battle between Douglas and Meek is likely to be bitter, and the result close. One major issue that neither man can control but each will try to use: the condition of the U.S. economy. Paul Douglas has been crying that the U.S. may be heading for a depression, has...
Even if the current upturn in auto output, housing, retail sales and other fields should prove to be no more than a seasonal spurt, the Administration would find public works no fast-working wonder drug. In the Big Depression, it took 18 months after the start of the Government'...
But in 1936, his interests began to change, and he had "a continuing, smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany ... I had relatives there . . . I saw what The Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs ... I began to sense the larger sorrows of...
Doctors are remiss too, said Dr. Page, in neglecting the early stages of the disease in their patients. As he put it: "The cardiologist [must] assume the burden of atherosclerosis, which he has so long and so successfully avoided in favor of taking care of its consequences." And on prescribing...
Actually, the strongest union argument in favor of a guaranteed wage in the big industries is that it would keep up buying power, and thus counteract swings in the business cycle. Few union men argue that G.A.W. would guarantee against a depression. But they do argue that guaranteed wage plans...