Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With vague longings to be a writer, Dorothy sailed to England in 1920, became a reporter when International News Service signed her to cover a Zionist conference in London. For the next eight years, she matched wits with the sharpest scoop hounds in Europe-Gunther, Floyd Gibbons, Walter Duranty. She...
The New Untouchables. In the '20s, Orwell - still known as Eric Blair* - was serving in Britain's Burma police and slowly becoming disillusioned with his Kiplingesque career. He could not bring himself to go on governing the "lesser breeds without the Law,'' but when he took...
But despite the landing of foreign troops, despite perhaps as many as 2,000 killed since May, despite an economic depression brought on by the strife, Lebanese politicians were still loath to put aside their petty ambitions and prejudices for the settlement that the vast bulk of their countrymen wanted...
Despite the gloomy present, network executives profess to see only full screens and coffers for next fall. "If we were in a depression instead of a recession, our posture might be different," says NBC's Don Durgin, vice president in charge of sales. "We fully expect to be sold...
Despite pessimistic predictions of a new era of consumer uncertainty, the Center reports an overwhelming feeling among consumers that a real depression is impossible, detects only a slight impairment of the "underlying feelings of confidence and security which characterized the past ten years." In 1958 the U.S. consumer has merely...