Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"They call us the Silent Generation," he said with a sneer. "The hydramatic men. We don't speak, we don't act, we don't create." He paused. "We are the spawn of a depression decade; we were old in the cradle."
Lumps in the Throat. Arguing that diamond production should be held back during the Depression rather than let their value, in price and prestige, depreciate in a cheap market, he outtalked opposition directors, was elected chairman. De Beers became his. He still had to argue, cajole, charm, browbeat rivals, but...
Died. Beniamino Gigli, 67, famed lyric tenor, an Italian shoemaker's son who took over Caruso's roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, sang and acted with a peasant's gusto ("as naturally as a gamecock fights"); of pneumonia; in Rome. Refusing to take a salary...
A shaped charge is a mass of explosive with a carefully calculated cavity that focuses the force of the explosion in a desired direction. If the cavity is a conical depression, the explosion shoots out a spike of flame with enormous speed and power. Wartime bazookas carried shaped charges that...
Biographer Coit tells in full and flattering detail the nature of Baruch's services to the U.S. from his days as "czar"' of Woodrow Wilson's War Industries Board to the days when he presented to the U.N. the U.S.'s "Baruch Plan" for control of...