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Books on: 1950s american economy

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In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s

Book by Louis Harap; Greenwood Press, 1987

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American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...money." 38 Another aspect of 1950s suburban life was "the ostentatious...characterized as the typical 1950s rabbi of an affluent congregation...declaration of a dissenter from the 1950s: "There is a frontier, all...peculiarly "modern" in its mood and economy, compact, and replete with...
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The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s

Book by M. Keith Booker; Greenwood Press, 2002

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American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Cold War In Literature, Dystopias In Literature, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures--United States--History, Political Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century, Realism In Literature

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...the workings of a capitalist economy, however effectively racism...leftist fiction of the long 1950s, most of which is realist in...admirable works during the long 1950s, we also need to interrogate...leftist fiction of the long 1950s shows that the erosion in the...
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Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the New York Political Economy

Book by Andraes Torres; Temple University Press, 1995

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African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Economic Conditions, New York (N.Y.)--Economic Conditions, Puerto Ricans--New York (State)--New York--Economic Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the robustness of the areas economy. 3 Significantly, the bulk...the diversity of the citys economy. In 1950 manufacturing supplied...alterations in the national economy during the recessions of the 1950s and 1960s. Not overly dependent...
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Gis and Frauleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

Book by Maria HÖhn; University of North Carolina Press, 2002

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Germany--History--1945-, Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)--Economic Conditions, Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)--Social Conditions, United States--Armed Forces--Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate Region

Collections: History, Entire Library

...residents of communities with American bases saw the American...of a hitherto stagnant economy. The excitement over...could argue that the 1950s were a mere continuation...communities, then, the 1950s were a continuation of...many ways in which the 1950s were markedly different...
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Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s

Book by Benjamin L. Alpers; University of North Carolina Press, 2003

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Democracy, Dictatorship, Mass Media--United States--Influence, Public Opinion--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...newfound influence of existentialism among American intellectuals. Anxieties about dictatorship...facts about the human condition, even as both American economic thought and the U. S. economy itself seemed to be leaving behind the world...

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Journal Articles on: 1950s american economy

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GIs and Frauleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

Journal article by Timothy Schroer; Journal of Social History, Vol. 37, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, GIs and Frauleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and Frauleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. by Timothy Schroer...the economic prosperity that American dollars brought to the local economy, Hohn credits official efforts by the American military to act as good neighbors...
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The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

Journal article by David J. Goldberg; The Historian, Vol. 73, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Mills That Shaped the American Economy. by David J. Goldberg...Mills that Shaped the American Economy. By Hardy Green...a strike during the 1950s that lasted over five...speculate about why so many Americans sought to establish...serve as a travelogue of American industrial history written...
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Mexican Americans & the U.S. Economy: Quest for Buenos Dias and Moving from the Margins: A Chicana Voice on Public Policy

Journal article by Robert H. Jackson; Journal of Social History, Vol. 36, 2003

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Mexican Americans and the U.S. Economy: Quest for Buenos Dias (Book)--Reviews, Moving from the Margins: A Chicana Voice on Public Policy (Book)--Reviews

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...Americans the U.S. Economy: Quest for Buenos...the role of Mexican Americans in the contemporary...status of Mexican-Americans today in the United...class, and Mexican-Americans in the labor market...mainstream Anglo-American society in the United...Wetback in the mid- 1950s is another. In the...
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"Hypnotizzy" in the Cold War: the American Fascination with Hypnotism in the 1950s

Journal article by Robert Genter; The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 29, 2006

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American history, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Social conditions & trends

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...the Cold War: the American Fascination with Hypnotism in the 1950s by Robert Genter...operation in the 1950s to develop a "Manchurian...hypnotism within American culture in the 1950s. Concerns over...new postindustrial economy and the "one...
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Godden, Richard. William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words

Journal article by Barbara Ladd; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 36, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words (Critical work)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. Princeton...between literature and the economy conceptualize those...words have their economies ... because language and economy are both arbitrary systems...South in the 1940s and 1950s. More particularly...the loss of African American labor, and hence part...

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Magazine Articles on: 1950s american economy

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Looking at the End Game: The Proposed North American Union Is a Major Building Bloc in a Plan to Merge the Entire World into a UN-Supervised, Centrally Planned Economy

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 22, October 2, 2006

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Global economy--Forecasts and trends, Globalization--Economic aspects, International cooperation--Forecasts and trends, United Nations--Aims and objectives

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...Centrally Planned Economy. by William Norman...accountability to the American people, or any...damage on millions of Americans who work in agriculture...and once in the 1950s, the U.S. Congress...FTAs with Latin American nations such as...integrated globalized economy, their schemes...Carolina--the first American communities to partake...
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Not Your Father's Detroit: The Motor City Virtually Created the Old Era of Shared Prosperity. Today, the Middle Has Fallen out of the Economy. What Can We Do to Get It Back?

Magazine article by Harold Meyerson; The American Prospect, Vol. 17, April 2006

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Automobile industry--Economic aspects, Industrial policy--Economic aspects, Industrial policy--United States, Labor unions--Economic aspects, Labor unions--Organizing, Middle class--Compensation and benefits, Middle class--Economic aspects, Middle class--Employment, Middle classes--Compensation and benefits, Middle classes--Economic aspects, Middle classes--Employment, Outsourcing--Economic aspects, Unionization--Economic aspects, United States economic conditions--Social aspects

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...falling out of the American economy. At first glance...schooling for the average American increased by seven...college-educated Americans in the decades following...from other nations economies. None of these conditions...pertain any more. Americans level of schooling...majority of leading American corporations to get...
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Auto Bailout: Lemon or Lemonade? Will a Bailout of the Big Three Automakers-General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler-Refresh the Auto Industry or Further Sour the Economy?

Magazine article by Alex Newman; The New American, Vol. 25, January 5, 2009

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Automobile industry--Political activity, Automobile industry--Political aspects, Automotive industry--Political activity, Automotive industry--Political aspects, Chrysler L.L.C.--Political activity, Economic conditions--Political aspects, General Motors Corp.--Political activity, Transportation equipment industry--Political activity, Transportation equipment industry--Political aspects

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...or Further Sour the Economy? by Alex Newman ILLUSTRATION...vehicle (no tax). If an American car is sold in Germany...VAT gets added to the American car, making it hard for American companies to compete...working, and since Americans wont give them money...brink of collapse in the 1950s, blasted the bailout...
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The Treadmill Economy

Magazine article by Jeff Madrick; The American Prospect, November 1998

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Cost and standard of living--Economic aspects, Gross domestic product--Economic aspects, Labor productivity--Economic aspects, United States economic conditions--Evaluation

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...less since 1990. WHAT NEW ECONOMY? America is drawing the wrong...insisted that the underground economy was providing so much opportunity...that many once fully employed Americans were happy to retire early...have long been told that many Americans were insufficiently skilled...
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The Dollar's Day of Reckoning: America's Falling Dollar and Mounting International Debt Are Not, as Pundits Often Declare, the Wages of Profligacy and Sin. They Are the Inevitable Products of Dysfunctional International Financial Arrangements-A System That Now Appears Likely to Come Crashing Down, with Alarming Implications for the American Economy

Magazine article by Robert Z. Aliber; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 29, Winter 2005

Subjects:

Banking industry--Evaluation, Economic indicators--Evaluation, International finance--Influence

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...small part of its economy for so many years...In the early 1950s, for example...Treasury. American gold holdings...Japanese and German economies began to grow...than the U.S. economy, foreign central...damage on the American economy and others as...exchange rates. The 1950s and 60s were...

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Newspaper Articles on: 1950s american economy

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Interiors : A Designer Diner in Your Own Home; Take One Kitchen Disaster Area and Bring in a Little 1950s American Chic

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and Bring in a Little 1950s American Chic. QUICK. Call the...Units Traditionally, American diner style kitchens...heating pipes is a false economy. Sure its cheaper to...reconstruction was inspired by the 1950s but is by no means a...
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Eople Who Think the Automobiles of the 1950s Were All Overstuffed, Chrome-Laden,

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 12, 2009

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American Motors Corp., Automobiles, Transportation equipment industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Automobiles of the 1950s Were All Overstuffed...the automobiles of the 1950s were all overstuffed...that championed fuel economy over horsepower and...by the lowly Rambler American, which then featured...By the end of the 1950s, more than 90,000 Americans had been sold, triple...
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How Can We Make Our Tax System More Fair? Americans Want a Tax System That Is Fair, Simple and Capable of Raising the Revenue We Need to Pay the Nation's Bills. the One We Have Fails on All Three Counts

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 8, 2009

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Americans--Tax policy, Americans--Taxation, Taxation

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tax System More Fair? Americans Want a Tax System That...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Americans want a tax system that...to 1913, is a deeply American tradition. It recognizes...from our modern, mixed economy therefore have an obligation...dropping - as we saw in the 1950s and 60s - the tax structure...the PPIs Innovation Economy Project.
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THE DECADE - 1950s: 1950-1959

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 1, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

THE DECADE - 1950s: 1950-1959. The 1950s was the decade of the...involving British and American troops, before a ceasefire...presided over a booming economy but there, as elsewhere...decadent regime. The 1950s also saw a new car called...
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Creating a 1950s Kitchen in 2005

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 7, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Creating a 1950s Kitchen in 2005. Colin and...by the look of fabby 50s American diners. Check out all the...Rooms... Traditionally, American diner style kitchens were...heating pipes is a false economy. Sure, its cheaper to surface...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 1950s american economy

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Liberia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...merchants and European and American technicians. Economy The civil warfare that...hardwoods. Until the 1950s, Liberias economy was...production of rubber. The American-owned Firestone plantation...when officials of the American Colonization Society...
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Germany

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...million Muslims, mainly Turks and Kurds. Economy The former West Germany has for many years...East Germany from a deteriorating command economy dependent on low-quality heavy industrial...products to a technologically advanced market economy. Unemployment in the east has remained...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...a service-based economy. In 1996 some 74% of Americans worked in service...explored the North American coast for England...Distinct colonial economies emerged, reflecting...passionate anti-American sentiment in that...that killed eight Americans only worsened the...media and the nations economy sliding deeper into...promised to restore American supremacy both politically...
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Montana

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...as are such Native American reservations as the...Missoula and Butte . Economy In and around Montanas...Trading, and Gold Native Americans known to have inhabited...thereafter both Canadian and American fur traders continued...called mountain men . The American Fur Company , with its...oil boom of the early 1950s stimulated the economy...
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Netherlands

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Catholic primate of the Netherlands. Economy Agriculture, which engages only a...Netherlands sided against England in the American Revolution and as a result lost several...the Dutch economy expanded in the 1950s and 60s. Industry was enlarged significantly...

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