Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet here it was, during the drought and depression years of the '30s, that dry winds seared hopes and dreams while piling the topsoil into dunes of dust. This was the Great Dust Bowl of the north, where thin-coated sheep could be bought for just $2 apiece and...
During the 1870s, it suffered an epidemic of cholera, lived through the Russo-Turkish war, was reduced to an enrollment of only 128 after Sultan Abdul Hamid II issued a decree barring Moslem Turks from foreign schools. The 1890s brought another cholera epidemic. Then the country had an earthquake, and...
Red into Black. Many of the second-quarter reports dramatically underlined the uprush in sales achieved by almost every U.S. company. American Motors (Nash, Hudson), struggling against odds to improve its share of the auto market, had the first profitable quarter since its merger (May 1, 1954). Earnings hit $1...
Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France...
For a while thereafter, Evergood seemed to have been beached on the mudbank of the Depression. His bitterness began to have a period flavor, and fell from favor. But with his like-minded peers Jack Levine and Ben Shahn, Evergood has come back strong in recent years, steadily, if spottily...