Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strongly as he believes in plastic surgery, Dr. Apton warns that it should not be used in purely trifling cases, or when a patient's depression is actually rooted in something deeper. And with approval he quotes a Canadian colleague: "Scars obtained in honest toil or in battle for...
Tradition Smasher. Gary had not only let the empire shrink; its plants had grown antiquated. To scurf the rust, the House of Morgan brought in Lawyer Myron C. Taylor, who had made $20 million, while still a young man, by putting rickety textile firms back on their feet. Taylor paid...
This cautious desire to be "well fixed" and a little more has many causes: the war; the lingering shock of the Big Depression (which this younger generation felt or heard about in its childhood); and the hard-to-kill belief (still expounded in some college economics courses) that the frontiers...
Perhaps more than any of its predecessors, this generation wants a good; secure job. This does not mean that it specifically fears a depression, as some aging New Dealers claim. The feeling is widespread that anyone who wants to work can find a decent job; the facts confirm that feeling...
Says one youthful observer who still likes his dreams bigger: "This generation suffers from lack of worlds to conquer. Its fathers in a sense, did too well. Sure, there are slums left-but another Federal housing project can clean up the worst. Most of the fights in labor have simmered...