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Anglo-American loan officially Anglo-American Loan Agreement was a loan made to the United Kingdom by the United States on 15 July 1946, enabling its economy after the Second World War to keep afloat. [1] The loan was negotiated by British economist John Maynard Keynes and American diplomat William L. Clayton. Problems arose on the American ...
Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is published. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's A Natural Science of Society is published. Jean-Paul Sartre's The Problem of Method is published. Victor Turner's Schism and Continuity in an African Society is published. Karl Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power is published.
"Teenager" is an American word that first appeared in the British social scene in the late 1930s. National attention focused on them from the 1950s onwards. [ 115 ] [ 116 ] [ 117 ] Improved nutrition across the entire population was causing the age of menarche to fall on average by three or four months every decade, for well over a century.
In another study on poverty, Wilfred Beckerman estimated that 9.9% of the British population lived below a standardised poverty line in 1973, compared with 6.1% of the population of Belgium. [ 15 ] Low pay was also a major cause of poverty, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] with a report by the TUC in 1968 finding that about 5 million females and about 2.5 million ...
The Old Poor Law in Scotland: The Experience of Poverty, 1574–1845 (Edinburgh UP, 2022) Mommsen, Wolfgang J., and Wolfgang Mock, eds. The emergence of the welfare state in Britain and Germany, 1850–1950 (Taylor & Francis, 1981). Morgan, Kenneth O. Labour in power, 1945–1951 (1984) online. esp. pp. 142–187. Rose, Michael E.
Category: 1950s in North America. 24 languages. ... 1950s in the British Virgin Islands (3 C) C. 1950s in Canada (23 C, 3 P) 1950s in North America by city (3 C)
An American family watching television together in 1958. The 1950s are known as the Golden Age of Television by some people. Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts.
Poor White is a sociocultural classification used to describe economically disadvantaged Whites in the English-speaking world, especially White Americans with low incomes.. In the United States, Poor White is the historical classification for an American sociocultural group, [1] of generally Western and/or Northern European descent, with many being in the Southern United States and Appalachia ...