Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The earth is generally considered a slightly flattened sphere, its flatness at the poles resulting from plastic response to its spinning motion. Last week Dr. John A. O'Keefe, assistant director of the Theoretical Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, gave evidence before the American Physical Society...
For young Marek Hlasko, 26, most gifted writer of Poland's restless postwar generation, life in West Berlin was a succession of binges. Ever since he refused to return to his Communist homeland (TIME, Oct. 20), he had been lionized in Berlin's literary salons. His blond good...
The history of the U.S. economy supports this view. Through times of tremendous growth and prosperity the U.S. economy has always had "normal'' inflation -and the alternative has too often been depression. The best long-range measure of inflation is the wholesale price index, which has been recorded...
In his new position Mason also faces a tough job; he will have to try to push through the President's new housing program over heavy congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove...
The Belief in Disbelief. In the first third of the book, Author Griffith offers his autobiographical press pass to American life. Seattle-born, Griffith had a boardinghouse boyhood more apt for the pen of Dickens than the brush of Norman Rockwell. Entering the University of Washington in the Depression year...