Thomas O'Malley
“Serpents in the Cold” by Professor Thomas O’Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy The 1950s seems a familiar decade, nestled in a buoyant post-war economy that expanded the middle class and generated an avid consumer society. But before the Princess phones, Eldorado tailfins and backyard Weber grills, there was a short, but sharp, recession. By 1951, Boston was still struggling.
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