Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to USA issues to date, the U.S. is populated by two kinds of people: a wasteful, sex-mad, rich minority and poor, starving millions. When, as often, the Red editors are not able to find enough twistable news, they print as current events ancient stories and pictures about the...
Graves talked a bank into lending him $100, made a down payment on a cigar store and used it profitably as a front for an illegal liquor business. With the new stake, he got back into sheepherding. When other herders told him it couldn't be done, he moved...
To make its computation, the department picked 1939 as a reasonable norm between prosperity and depression, and used that year's purchasing power of the dollar as a base. With this measuring stick, said the department, the gross national product for 1929 was $85.9 billion, instead of the actual...
This development, and the new merchandising opportunities it created, marked a fitting climax to Rheem's first quarter century. In that span, the firm licked a depression, spread across the nation and the world, built a thriving home appliance business in automatic water heaters and forced-air heating systems...
Died. Walter Rautenstrauch, 70, longtime Columbia University professor of industrial engineering, a founder-leader in the Depression-born technocracy movement (he abandoned it in 1933); in Manhattan.