Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Times had changed from those exhilarating days when The Plan was going to cure the depression and Dr. Townsend strode into Washington with 25 million signatures in his pocket to tell Congress that if it didn't like his plan there would be a different Congress, and if the...
Otis & Co. announced that it would appeal the decision. Cy Eaton was in a tight spot and he knew it; his welshing on the deal was the first such case since the Securities Act of 1933. But he had squeezed out of many a tight spot before. In the '...
One morning last year, the major's wife got up and found her husband already fully dressed, with his hair neatly brushed, eating the breakfast he had cooked for himself. Then she noticed a trickle of blood running down each side of his face; each trickle came from a...
* This type of drastic self-surgery was performed earlier in the U.S., with a shotgun, by a Maine woman who thereby cured herself of a "pyramiding depression" (TIME, Nov. 1, 1948).
4. Set aside 10% of their income as a hedge against depression.