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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...members of Democratic families. We were always allowed to march too, but they put us at the end of the line, so as not to contaminate the rest of them. Gradually we realized that we were always put at the end of the line and we got sort of sore about...
...little boy was Paul Howard Douglas, who grew up to be a college professor, a famous economist, and a combat veteran himself. But he never got over being sort of sore at injustice, wherever he found it. He was from the beginning a rebel, a reformer, a crusader for the boys at the end of the line. The people of Chicago made him an alderman; in 1948 the voters of Illinois sent him to the U.S. Senate...
...decided he would print a new sort of magazine, filled with bright cartoons as well as simple articles on science, music and history. There would be adventure stories centered about the lives of historical figures, and short biographies of foreign notables, from General MacArthur to Helen Keller, to balance the Japanese heroes. Silver Bells, he decided, would be unlike anything Japan had seen before...
...early months of 1949, in the mid-continent city of Indianapolis, Mrs. Irene Horn, a housewife, felt frightened of the future. She "just had a sort of fear." The fear was so great that she was saving every nickel, buying only bare necessities, and praying for prices to come down. By year's end, Mrs. Horn's fears had vanished. She and her husband had bought a farm in Ohio, and the future looked rosy. As she looked out over her 30 acres, her well-filled bins and fat cattle, she said: "I think things are pretty steady...
...capsule, that was the story of the whole U.S. economy in 1949. As the year began, the nation too "just had a sort of fear." The greatest boom in history was over the crest, and U.S. business had begun the perilous, booby-trapped road back to what it hoped would be "normalcy." The journey was not unlike Christian's trek in Pilgrim's Progress. The wayfaring nation started in the Slough of Dispond, went through Vanity Fair, passed the lion-guarded House Beautiful, profited from the counselings of Prudence, stumbled on the Hill called Difficulty, defeated Apollyon...