Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are other items in the charge, of course--just enough to invoke the Communist issue and thus justify, by the slick logic of the times, imputing the worst possible motives to Oppenheimer. Back in the thirties and early forties, he spoke with Communists and ex-Communists. He married someone...
The Fifth Fear. Finally, said the President, the nation is afraid of unemployment and depression. Unemployment has risen as "a result of our efforts to go from a war to a peace economy." and the unemployment total "happily shows every sign now of leveling off." The mongers of gloom, he...
Thin Ice. Barth's pessimism is enough to cast the optimistic reader into deepest depression. "Everything we see before us today." he writes, "is more or less polluted, diluted and devalued . . . Men were never good, are not good, and never will be good . . . The morality of modern civilized man...
Since World War II, Chairman Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. i mail-order house, has gone in for freehanded expansion, spent around $300 million to increase its retail outlets from 610 to 694 and another $26 million to open 24 stores in Latin America. On the other...
Ahead lies the possibility of eventual ruin for the entire Plan and subsequent return of dormitory standards at best. By 1958 the first of a flood of post-depression babies will begin applying for admission, and many feel that if the College is to maintain its national character it will...