1930s: Fashion
American fashions shifted in the 1930s. The 1920s had been a decade of excess. Fashions for both young men and women—the "sheiks" and "flappers"ȁ...
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Tests and Trials.
For many, the 1930s were a squalid decade, introduced by financial collapse that threatened the foundations of the nation and ended by the threat of involvement in wars in both Euro...
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The Biggest Health Concern.
In the 1930s the biggest health concern of America was how to pay for medical needs. The national income was less than half of what it had been in 1929, and in several sta...
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The Rise of Mass Media.
The 1930s made a lasting impact on American mass media. Despite the Depression several of the mass media in the United States underwent considerable growth during the 1930s. E...
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Endings and Beginnings
Adjusting to Austerity
Streamline Moderne
The Bauhaus
Organic Architecture
A New Look for Cars
American Fashion
Hollywood
Daily Wear
Roadside Americana
Getting By
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On the Road.
In the summer of 1935 a gangling, fourteen-year-old Arkansas farm boy named Lee Webster hiked twenty miles from his home in Landis to the nearest paved highway, caught a ride, and went l...
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Charles passed away today at his Beverly Hills, Calif. home in the presence of family and friends. He was 73.Born Ray Charles Robinson on Sept. 23, 1930, the first child of Aretha and Bailey Robins...
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Developing nations said they would
resist "pressure and even threats" from some rich countries to
step up the fight against climate change, as talks on a global
climate pact ...
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KIEV, Nov 24 (Reuters) - President Viktor Yushchenko said on
Saturday today's turmoil pitting Ukraine's Russian-speaking east
against its nationalist west had its roots in a famine
engineered by S...
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BAQUBA, Iraq - A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with
explosives killed 13 neighbourhood patrol volunteers and a U.S.
soldier in a volatile Iraqi province on Thursday. - - - - WASHINGTON - U....
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NAUDERO, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's party named her son and
husband to succeed the slain opposition leader but doubts grew
about whether a Jan. 8 poll aiming to transform Pakistan from
military r...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea missed a year-end
deadline to give a full account of its nuclear weapons under a
disarmament-for-aid deal struck with regional powers and the
United States. "I t...
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Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles (110 kilometers) out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly ...
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Sarajevo (dpa) - There is no better future for Bosnia-Herzegovina
than its European future, the new international community's high
representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slov...
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Nov 16 (Reuters) - World Sports Diary for November 17 -
November 24 (all times GMT) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 SOCCER: Euro 2008: qualifying, group stage Group A Finland v Azerbaijan ...
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