Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Spirit of 76. Although the Old-Fashioned Fourth is dead, the nation today is more clearly than ever a vast and teeming monument to the Spirit of '76. The potent and bubbly brew of '76 was compounded of two unlike elements. Rebellion against tradition and authority, a...
From his first cartoon for the P-D 40 years ago (an attack on wooden railroad coaches showing a train of coffin-shaped cars rounding a bend of track) to his poignant chronicle of the Depression (a beaten, slumped worker standing in front of a soup kitchen-"One Person Out...
Norman Biltz, born a poor boy in Bridge port, Conn, in 1902, for a while seemed destined to run in the jostling and confident pack of those who always see but never seize the glittering tumbleweed of fortune. But after toiling as a steamboat wiper, a strikebreaker, a manufacturer'...
Depression followed, and an ambitious male secretary at a major studio who asked for a raise was awarded a key to the executive washroom instead. The day was saved again by Technicolor, and in the sunlight of wartime prosperity, Hollywood made hay. But after the war the foreign market collapsed...
In the Depression, when the New Deal wanted "cheap money" (i.e., low interest rate) the FRB lost much of its independence. To help the Treasury float each new issue of low interest bonds to finance mounting deficits, the Fed had to support the prices of all bonds by buying enough...