Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was hard-up Depression time, and Dick borrowed $1,000 on a life insurance policy, got hold of a battered Oldsmobile coupé to go campaigning 40,000 miles across the state and got elected. He was sworn in by his father, the chief justice (appointed) and then began...
Ever since he first wooed the future Mrs. Graham with a mid-Depression vow ("Stick with me and we'll be on Easy Street"), Wichita's lively William L. Graham has been making the promise come true. He began with a $200 bank loan in 1936, and at...
Conant stressed particularly the latter, which characterizes capitalism by worker oppression, class struggle, and continual depression-inflation cycles, since many may believe such analysis, although not the dialectical and historical materialism theory.
Wall Street's optimistic mood was reflected in a survey taken by Dun & Bradstreet of the presidents* of 110 top U.S. corporations with total assets of $27 billion. Not one of the presidents saw a recession coming in 1957. To the contrary, three out of four were confident that...
Of all the alphabetical agencies set up during the Great Depression, none had a bigger job than the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Created under President Hoover, it lent billions of dollars to shore up shaky banks, railroads and other key institutions. Its Depression-fighting mission accomplished, RFC lived on in World...