Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts of employment in the automobile industry do not bear out the cries of doom. Of a total labor force of 1,510,000 in the Detroit area, 121,000 are out of jobs. This is less than the level accepted as "normal" during the last eight years. Ford and General Motors are both employing more men today than a year ago. Chrysler employment is down (as is Studebaker at South Bend); Packard has been retooling. Auto sales have shown signs of an upward turn...
Since the nation was not doomed to economic collapse last week, Republicans decided that it was time to challenge Democrats who cried that it was. The voices of the doom criers heard in the land warned that 1) the Republicans were courting a depression, and 2) if it came, they wouldn't know how to cope with...
...Walter Reuther? What prompted Adlai Stevenson's 'fear' speech? Could Senator Paul Douglas be worried about election year? . . . Just what is Wayne Morse and his one-man party contributing to the welfare of the country? Yet, this quartet rides like the Four Horsemen, spreading gloom and doom across the land . . . The left wing in America regards a depression as its one-way ticket into power...
Unlike some fellow Democrats, who have been fearing doom and depression, Harry Truman seemed willing to recognize the facts of U.S. prosperity. In fact, he chided the Administration for lacking the courage of its convictions: If the U.S. is more prosperous than ever, Truman said, the Administration should not say "that we are not prosperous enough . . . to increase the minimum wage...
...century ago, when the historical optimists still believed in eternal progress, the earthly future looked like bright heaven. Today, for a whole school of literary pessimists, it looks like unshaded hell. The harbingers of doom, headed by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four), have now been joined by Frenchman Jean Malaquais. His world of the future is as grim a nightmare as theirs. But the hero of Malaquais' The Joker is not one to surrender to a nightmare. What makes him different from most of his fictional counterparts is his unbreakable will to live...