GEO 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: First Principle, Pseudoscience, Streptomycin
6 Dec 2016
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Dynamism and quest for fun remarkably buoyant years of the mid-1950s. Poverty and discrimination blacks, mexican-americans, and indians. The korean war fading, the read scare weakening, eisenhower strong, the consumer culture. Male college and university graduates were blessed. Recruiters were not much interested in talented women thought to be suited for roles as wives and mothers. Minority children and the poor inferior schooling. Rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms. Federal housing and veterans administration offered low-interest loans to facilitate. Ibm, airplane and airline industries home-buying and suburban expansion. Growth of la: mega-building of multi-lane freeways. Promoted grand expectations for further scientific and technological advances. Biologists, medical researchers, and doctors omnipotent: developed penicillin and streptomycin. Fundamentalist faiths provided an anchor of consolation as well as self-identification amid the floodtides of social and cultural change. American society in 1950: flaws of suburbanization, vulgarity of runaway materialism and consumerism, and the deterioration of traditional american values .
