pink slime. A popular term for an inexpensive, low-quality meat filler, which comprises up to 70% of ground beef sold in the US.ink slime. A popular term for an inexpensive, low-quality meat filler, which comprises up to 70% of ground beef sold in the US.
In 1913, the government established a new federal banking system, the Federal Reserve, to regulate the nation's money supply and to place some controls on banking activities. The largest changes in the government's role occurred during the New Deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression. During this period in the 1930s, the United States endured the worst business crisis and the highest rate of unemployment in its history.
The U.S. Supreme Court had been nullifying crucial New Deal legislation, but the president was re-elected by a wide margin in 1936. That nationwide endorsement of FDR, who carried every state except Vermont and Maine, convinced him that he had popular backing.s a conservative Supreme Court flexes its muscles against a Democratic president for the first time since the New Deal, a series of recent books has ... The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes.