Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a 25-year-old daughter of the Lost Generation, I thank you for the article. I feel more strongly than ever that the force causing my generation to join churches, nurse our babies (indeed, have them at all!) and raise little vegetable gardens in our subdivision rectangles is not...
The government concluded that it could not wait for remedies until the April budget. Pale and worried, Chancellor Harold Macmillan rose in Commons one day last week and announced his new measures. The day before, he had raised the bank rate (equivalent to the U.S.'s Federal Reserve discount...
The areas of study are immense. The relationship of the University to the national demand for education is an obvious example. What will be the effect of changing population composition? Can accurate predictions of the make-up of the student body be made, in terms of married versus non-married...
SOFT COAL COMEBACK will bring as much as a 50?-a-ton price boost in April, the second such increase in seven months. The boost, owing to increasing demand (up 20% in 1955) and higher costs, will raise soft coal prices to where they were before the 1948 depression.
By now Powell's gaga saga has gathered an odd and diverting cast of characters who make their entrances and exits, as people do in life, with no particular design. In The Acceptance World he shuffles them in all their inconsequence into the Great Depression, or as the British...