Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I read with great interest the wise comments of those sages of the Democratic Party -Truman, Butler & Kroll-assembled at French Lick, Ind. [Sept. 5]. They are so right; the present Administration is sadly out of step. The Republicans have brought on a depression (with employment at an alltime high...
The Greatest Experience. Though he was making $200 a week during the depths of The Depression, squiring showgirls around town and living in a swank apartment at Manhattan's Essex House, Wouk began to feel that "gags were not the answer to the riddle of existence." He talked to...
DURING the bleak years of the Great Depression, millions of U.S. families learned to rule their lives by the household budget, religiously parceling out set amounts for all needs, from mortgage payments to shoe-shines. Many families divided their income into envelopes firmly labeled Rent, Food, Electricity, etc.; others made...
The record, by Perón's own accounting, is mediocre at best. Gross national product climbed by about one-third between 1945 and 1954. But meanwhile the population increased from 15 million to 19 million, so that the net per capita gain amounted to only 10%-an unremarkable...
* In 1933, at depression's depth, 24.9% of the work force was unemployed. As late as 1940, the total was still 14.6%.