Word: pyromania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...16th annual meeting of the Association, more than 1,000 enthusiastic Orthopsychiatrists buzzed in the ballroom of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, discussed such varied subjects as the connection of economics and personality, hostility of Pilaga Indian children to everybody and everything, emotional qualifications of good teachers, infant pyromania, problems of old age. Cheerful social workers occupied most of the ballroom chairs, but the meeting was dominated by psychoanalysts, who gave evidence of the utility and freshness of old Sigmund Freud's ideas (see p. 41) whence they had all got theirs...
...more U. S. houses burned down than were put up. This strange condition resulted from no outburst of pyromania, but from an almost complete stoppage in U. S. housebuilding. In 1925, new homes were built for nearly 500,000 families. In 1934, only 22,000 families were provided with new shelter. Yet even in Depression, which brings fewer marriages and a lower birth rate, the U. S. population was increasing at the rate of about 400,000 families a year. Result: an acute housing shortage demonstrated by the fact that U. S. residences are now only 4% vacant, while...