Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second Look. Not until 1937, when the Federal Government built 1.200 miles of low-cost rural lines, did most of sparsely settled Stevens County (pop. 19,500) get any electricity at all. The privately owned Washington Water Power Co., which served a few Stevens County towns, had been unable during...
Without Fever. Through the Depression, El Paso was kept alive by the Arizona copper industry, then spread to the growing cities of Phoenix and Tucson.
Good Morning, Miss Dove (20th Century-Fox) takes a tedious two hours to say good night. A tear-stained biography of a grade-school teacher, it stars Jennifer Jones as the town's prim disciplinarian whose glacial tones can make a hardened hoodlum jump to attention. One fine morning...
Of course, the Depression and the mounting of world problems, coupled with an increasing undergraduate awareness of the magnitude and immediacy of such problems, were not at all conducive to a humorous perspective. But this alone cannot explain the remarkably abrupt falling-off of the satires and parodies that were...
Such labor leaders as C.I.O. Research Director Stanley H. Ruttenberg plumped for income-tax cuts to beef up consumer buying. "Tax policies designed to grant an increasing degree of special privilege to business investment will not and cannot produce long-run economic growth and stability," said Ruttenberg. "What is required...