Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in January the Seven Wise Men of the Economics Department contributed "The Economics of the Recovery Program" to Harvard's already well nourished reputation as a home for die-hard academicians schooled in the embalmed jingo of a dead era, it was not Professor Taussig nor Professors Carver nor Burbank nor any other of the great Civil War school, but a new-comer, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, J.U.D., ex-finance minister of Austria, internationally known economic theorist, and no fool, who showed his hand...
...West, but are fed up with fake thrillers. It is a document in the history of that genuine Western culture, primitive as it was, which the expansion of the nation swept away. The only account comparable to it in conveying the real note of the cowboy era is that brief description written by Samuel Eliot Morison (of all people!) in the "Oxford History of the United States...
...able to organize the world under one control, if it has been able to remain neutral. That this did not occur in the last "war" is due only to the fact that its battles, its slaughter, its campaigns were but puling chitchat in the cradle of a new era...
...Federal government been able to do anything despite high-sounding promises. For the most part, this failure to regulate the liquor traffic is due to an unwillingness to impose more than a minimum of regulation, an unwillingness which represents a natural revulsion from the excessive regulation of the Prohibition era. In view, however, of the conditions that have prevailed during the last few months, I think that this attitude must be altered, and it must be admitted that what is needed is a maximum of stringent regulation. The ideal method, of course, would be to have the Federal government...
...purple era of rail construction was paling before the War, but it did not end until 1931 when Arthur Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...