Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The "Korean business"-and a lot of other business that may How_is the dominant fact in the life of today's youth. "I observe that you share the prevailing mood of the hour," Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold told his graduating class last June, "which in...
Ford said the death was "suicide by morphine poisoning during a state of depression." Covner had been worried about the money and publicity, and was bothered by the pranksters who constantly called his home to ask if he wanted a baby sitter.
Algren is depressed at what he sees in his Chicago: "Out of the Twisted Twenties flowered the promise of Chicago as a homeland and heartland of an American renaissance...Thirty years later we stand on the rim of a cultural Sahara...The giants cannot come again." And he jams a...
Beaver-busy, Baker moved on to Manhattan, was soon vice-president of a credit company. In 1925, when two former Beaver associates came to him with options on rich gypsum ores* near Buffalo, the three teamed up to form National Gypsum, and buck U.S. Gypsum, which then had a virtual...
The Good Depression. Baker, who had been thriftily putting earnings into reserves, saw the Depression as a fine time to expand. He could not only build new plants cheaply, but buy others at bargain rates. He built and bought, trimmed his costs by constant mechanization, turned up better products, astounded...