Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Oak Lawn, one school is so crowded that it has even considered a triple shift, with first-graders coming from. 5 to 9 in the evening. Though Northbrook has managed to build one new ten-room school, it does not have enough money left over to equip or furnish...
Their strange political journeyings had deep roots. All three were born to the bleak Depression South. Their families were poor, their lives unhappy, their world warped. Bell's father bragged that "I could always scare him into anything"; Griggs ran away, eventually joined the Army because of a school...
Career-in-Boom. Sonnabend began his career of buying and selling in Boston, where he was born. After graduating from Harvard ('18), and serving briefly as a naval aviator at the end of World War I, Sonnabend borrowed $5,000 from his jeweler father, and in less than a...
Valuable Loss. Last September, attracted by a tax loss of $11 million, Sonnabend bought control of Botany Mills, an oldtime worsted manufacturer hard hit by the textile depression. To make use of its tax loss, Botany bought money-making Gastonia Combed Yarn Corp., Jewel Cotton Mills and Gurney Mfg. for...
The hard school of the Depression brings out the spunky strain in Auntie Mame. With her income down to $200 a month, she opens an artsy-craftsy shop, the Maison Moderne, only to see it burn to the ground without insurance. On her first day as a switchboard operator, "she...