Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here, he is studying the American economic system, comparing it with the economy he studied during the Depression. "I am skeptical about whether the American economic system will be able to maintain its rate of growth and prosperity without spending so much on defense," he added.
Interested in the economic implications of militarism in Japan and of the international Depression during the early 1930's, Tsuru decided to major in Economics here after transferring from Lawrence College in 1934.
TIME, March 18 says: "The Depression-time rarity, the $20 bill, has come to be at home in everybody's wallet"-maybe in everybody's but the Joe on the fixed income. If you see one of those double sawbucks, that is an orphan looking for a home...
Twenty years or so ago, Bronx-born Leonard Warren (né Warrenoff) was busy selling fur jackets and studying advertising at Columbia, and Brooklyn-born Richard (originally Reuben) Tucker was selling dyed silk linings to the wholesale fur trade. Baritone Warren turned to singing (he won the 1938 Metropolitan Auditions...
Because of the low birth rate during the Depression, available girl-power-for all jobs-is lower than at any time since the mid-1920s. Today, girls also get married younger (median age: 20), and married working girls quit earlier to have more babies. Moreover, secretarial work no longer has...