Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The types of mental illness, a research team reported last week, ran the range-in various combinations-from everyday neuroses (one-third) with anxiety and depression to psychoses (21½%) and character and behavior disorders (54%), with emotional instability and passive-aggressive personality the commonest types.
¶ Eureka (Ill.) College, founded in 1855 by the elders of the local Disciples of Christ, was the victim of the Depression. In spite of every economy, it could not afford to keep up its library or replace its retiring professors. It even had to pay part of its faculty...
* Who correctly predicted the U.S. postwar boom, incorrectly predicted a U.S. depression in 1954-
Of all the pleasure domes built along Florida's Gold Coast in the late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million...
Prime examples of the new coffee caterers are Boston's William McConnell and Berton Steir, who wanted to get into a new business that would be depression-proof. In 1950 they bought one automatic coffee machine and started to serve coffee in a downtown Boston office. Since then, McConnell...