Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But one Senator at least is having a go at the challenge. For the past three years, Virginia's Harry F. Byrd has submitted an annual budget of his own, prepared by a four-man staff which works on it the year round. Last week Byrd put his plan...
Actually, the market was only reflecting the uncertainty of large segments of U.S. business. For months, economists had been forecasting a slowdown in the first and second quarters, when civilian output would be deeply cut before arms orders could fill the slack. But the slowdown seemed a little worse than...
Battle of the Billions. Hardly a correspondent in Washington had heard of Harold Ickes when Franklin Roosevelt announced his appointment. Pennsylvania-born, he had worked and scraped to get through the University of Chicago and its law school. Marriage to a wealthy divorcee gave him time to dabble in progressive...
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) was an unstable Ulster aristocrat whose favorite costume (pink hunting coat and riding boots) made him a figure in Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for...
Bobst got his start as a $3-a-week pill pusher in Philadelphia, studied pharmacy at night, and got his license at 20. After managing a number of drugstores in the city, he landed a job as Philadelphia representative for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., a big pharmaceutical house. Bobst called...