Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Why does Los Angeles have these silly problem children rushing about in their ridiculous suits? Los Angeles has pressed the Negro and the Mexican into squalid ghettoes. Is it then so miraculous and amazing that this sordid environment does not produce model young Americans?
Unknown Elements. But the most eminent U.S. meteorologist, Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby, head of Chicago's Institute, smiled skeptically at these notions. Said he: "There's too much of the popular science approach to the geophysical sciences in the U.S. We are far behind Scandinavia, where these sciences...
Assuming command of the Army Training Schools, Colonel Wood stated in his Order that "it is mandatory that the training program at this station be conducted with the utmost smoothness and efficiency." To that end all men attached to the station "will promptly familiarize themselves with and conform to" customs...
Absenteeism is only one of the characteristics of the whole dislocation of workers by the war program. But its cause lies in the actual environment of the worker. "Hotbed housing," jamming large numbers of workers together with no facilities for rest or recreation, induces workers to take days off to...
In theory, children learn self-control in such an environment. In practice they become intolerant of authority, freedom becomes license and, in some cases at least, definite antisocial attitudes develop. . . .