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Lesson 41 - 46
Unit 6 -- The Search for a Better Life
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| baby boom | the large increase in the number of babies born in proportion to the size of the population that took place after World War II and lasted until 1964 |
| blue-collar worker | a person who works in a factory or at a skilled trade, usually for an hourly wage |
| cost-of-living index | a measure of the differences in the price of goods and services over time |
| Fair Deal | President Harry S. Truman's domestic program, which he began promoting in 1945 with such intentions as increasing the minimum wage, increasing aid to agriculture and education, and enacting a national heath insurance program, only some of which Congress approved |
| inflation | an increase in the supply of money or credit relative to the availability of goods and services, resulting in generally higher prices |
| interstate highway system | authorized by Congress in 1956, a network of highways that connect major cities around the country; all highways are built under the same guidelines, so that each has at least two lanes in each direction, periodic rest areas for travelers, and no traffic lights or railroad crossings |
| Levittown | the first planned community in the nation, built between 1947 and 1951 in Long Island, New York, to relieve the housing shortage of the Great Depression and World War II years |
| life expectancy | the average life span of an individual |
| planned obsolescence | a method of encouraging the purchase of products in which businesses try to make what a consumer buys today seem obsolete, or out-of-date, after a fixed period of time |
| Sunbelt | the "belt" of warm-weather states that stretches across the southern third of the United States, from Florida to California |
| Taft-Hartley Act | a law passed by Congress, though President Harry S. Truman vetoed it, in 1947 to limit the power of unions |
| white-collar worker | a person who works in an office-based profession that does not involve manual labor and that requires a certain amount of formal dress, usually for a set salary |
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