Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Vermont curiosity is traditionally impolite. Even so, Vermonters wonder why a state that ranks 48th in murder should rank so high in self-destruction (about five male suicides for each female, 3½ times as many gunshot deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist...
Disclaiming any idea of advising trained economists on "technical issues," Ike set forth some "commonsense aspects of the matter that we must squarely face." No economy, he said, can satisfy all "personal and governmental demands and desires" at the same time. "The world may try through financial and monetary devices...
Died. George Ludlum Hartford, 92, chairman and financial wizard behind the growth of the A. & P. stores (for their future, see BUSINESS); of uremia; in Montclair, NJ. Inheriting the company in 1915 from their father, George Huntington Hartford, who had launched it with a small tea store on Manhattan'...
The swivel-necked softball fans saw a faster, flashier brand of ball than many a big-league booster has seen all season. The slow, playground pastime of Depression days has speeded into an organized sport of fierce and popular competition. There is nothing soft about it; even the big, hand...
Wandering Souls. The church stayed open through the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris Commune, World War I and the Depression; during World War II it was run by a French Protestant pastor for Dr. Williams, who left in 1940 with a flock of refugees.