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...failure as the court-packing scheme. All nine Senators won re-election in 1938. Hardly less embarrassing was the fact that a recession in 1937-38, caused partly by Roosevelt's efforts to restrict Government spending, set back the recovery. Unemployment rose by 2 million within three months; steel production sank by three-quarters, auto production by one-half. For the first time since the great crash, the Republicans made a comeback, gaining seven seats in the Senate and 80 in the House. Just two years after the landslide of 1936, the New Deal's innovations were drawing...
Passion for sports is indigenous to Monongahela, 30 miles upriver from Pittsburgh, a steel-gray place of mines, mills and farms, hunting caps, lumberjack shirts, car dealerships and finance companies. It is shot-and-a-beer country, "Iron City" beer. Real boilers are made there as well, and so are quarterbacks. Western Pennsylvania has turned them out as stoic as Johnny Unitas, as extravagant as Joe Namath and as plain tough as George Blanda. Joe Montana Jr. favors all of them somewhat...
...Detroit's plight only varies in kind from that of other ailing Northern cities. In Akron, the sick industry is tires; in Gary and Baltimore, steel; and everywhere, construction. This depression in heavy industry has triggered a spectacular rise in the unemployment rate from 7 per cent in July to 8.9 per cent in December. Unemployment in basic durable goods manufacturing as a whole stands at 11.8 per cent; in the automotive industry, at 21.7 per cent. So it should come as no surprise that two heavily industrialized states now boast unemployment figures in the Great Depression neighborhood: Michigan...
Other industrialized nations were quick to take advantage of Carter's ban on American high-technology exports two years ago. A French company, for example, landed a contract to build a Soviet steel plant that was originally scheduled to be constructed in part by Armco Inc. of Middletown, Ohio. James H. Giffen, president of Armco's international subsidiary, thinks that Europe will be equally unsupportive of Reagan's sanctions. Says he: "We applaud President Reagan for his sympathy with the Polish people. But we have to wonder whether sanctions are an effective way of communicating concern...
...failures of cultural communication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America. In California, for the past 25 years, there has been a strong tradition of clay sculpture. In New York, by contrast, any sort of earthenware was generally felt to be inferior as sculptural material, compared with bronze, steel, stone or wood. By showing the work of six leading Californian clay sculptors. Curators Richard Marshall and Suzanne Foley hope to show once and for all that clay can take on an expressive power beyond the limits of "mere" craft...