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  2. United States strike wave of 1945–1946 - Wikipedia

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    Organized labor. The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946 [1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries including the motion picture ( Hollywood Black Friday) and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million ...

  3. Marshall Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173 billion in 2023) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.

  4. Post–World War II economic expansion - Wikipedia

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    The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the postwar economic boom or the Golden Age of Capitalism, [1] [2] was a broad period of worldwide economic expansion beginning with the aftermath of World War II and ending with the 1973–1975 recession. [1] The United States, the Soviet Union and Western European and East Asian ...

  5. Aftermath of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US). The aftermath of World War II was also defined by the rising threat of nuclear warfare, the creation and implementation of the United Nations as an intergovernmental organization, and the decolonization of Asia, Oceania, South America and Africa by European and East Asian powers ...

  6. Childbirth - Wikipedia

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    Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section. [ 7] In 2019, there were about 140.11 million human births globally. [ 9] In the developed countries, most deliveries occur in hospitals, [ 10 ...

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Dan Kerwin, 23, attended a Recovery Works program in the spring, and his sister found him dead of an overdose during the July 4th weekend. Tabatha Roland, 24, suffered a fatal overdose in April — one week after graduating from Recovery Works. And in November, Ryan Poland, 24, died of an overdose. He too was a Recovery Works graduate.

  8. Jobless recovery - Wikipedia

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    DAC. DATE. IEEE Robotics and Automation Award. ICCAD. v. t. e. A jobless recovery or jobless growth is an economic phenomenon in which a macroeconomy experiences growth while maintaining or decreasing its level of employment. The term was coined by the economist Nick Perna in the early 1990s.

  9. National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

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    Front page of the National Industrial Recovery Act, as signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 16, 1933. The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 ( NIRA) was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the 73rd US Congress to authorize the president to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.