Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When James Bryant Conant succeeded Lowell in 1933, he took over a University in the midst of expansion, but at the same time bound by this nation's worst depression.
Slotkin was not at all worried that Allied's annual sales were six times Hygrade's $9,000,000. He bought Allied. By trimming off its fat and specializing in branded, packaged food, Hygrade weathered the Depression, soon opened plants in Europe, South America, Ireland, French Morocco, Australia...
Says the New York Times Book Review: "Ultrasophisticated ... a lot of good reading and good fun . . . TIME'S quizmasters know that a good question is one that is neither hard nor easy but that makes reader and friends want to look up the answer. Their book does just that...
Because of low birth rates in the Depression years, the number of young men available for the draft each year has shrunk to 1,100,000, of whom roughly 850,000 can meet physical and mental standards. To keep up the present U.S. military force of 3,500,000-made...
"The striking shift in our character and our world position in the last half-century, of course, has some direct results, already visible, in our interpretation of history . . . The apologetic attitude of the years of the Great Depression is gone. We can henceforth be more confident and more energetic in...