Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career: After two years as a grocery clerk, Mitchell opened his own butter and egg store, went bankrupt four years later. In 1929 he went to work as a clerk in the Western Electric Co. plant at Kearny, N.J., lost the job in a 1932 Depression layoff. The Depression brought...
NO depression, and "no ifs, ands and no buts," is predicted by Dr. William A. Irwin, economist for the American Bankers Association. Huge accumulated business earnings and private savings provide "the biggest cushion in history against depression." Farm incomes "are in no real danger of collapse; the law requires the...
One aim of the law, passed during the Depression, was to force workers to retire and get out of the labor force to make room for someone else. Since then, the labor shortage has changed the need for such a requirement, and 26 bills to let a worker over 65...
A more serious symptom of Freud's condition was his sudden passion for cocaine. "The essential constituent of coca leaves" had only recently been introduced into Europe, and young Freud went crazy over the "magical drug." Convinced that it was harmless, he gave it to his patients (one of...
The 1938 panic was caused by failure of the critical attitude in listeners. Allport stated. Skillful work by Welles made the material credible to listeners made insecure by the recent depression and the fear of Hitler's Germany. People believed with they hard and some saw just what the commentators...