scholarly journals Alternative Procedures for Estimating the Size Distribution of Farms

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
R. N. Stavins ◽  
B. F. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
New York State ◽  
World War ◽  
Milk Supply ◽  
Functional Forms ◽  
Alternative Procedures

Changes in the number and size distribution of dairy farms in the Northeast have come rapidly in the years since World War II. The objective of this study was to examine some of the newer methods of forecasting changes in this size distribution and ascertain the gains, if any, associated with these methods. Different formulations using Markov processes were compared with simple trend analyses and various functional forms in making projections. During the twenty-year period between 1958 and 1977 the number of farms delivering milk to plants in New York State decreased from slightly more than 45,800 to 16,500, a net decrease of approximately 64 percent. Over the same twenty-year period, annual milk production fluctuated between 9.8 and 11.0 billion pounds with a peak in 1965 and a low point in 1973. During the last five years, 1975–79, the number of farms delivering milk has continued to decline but milk production the the State has increased yearly and is expected to reach an all-time high in 1980. Such structural changes in the dairy industry have stimulated continued interest in problems of milk supply response and future variations in the size distribution of farms.

The Kingmakers of Fresh Pond Road

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ottorino Cappelli ◽  
Rodrigo Praino
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
American Politics ◽  
New York State ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Italian American ◽  
State Senator ◽  
Politically Active

This work provides an analysis of ethnic politics in the context of Italian American politics by focusing on the political activities and the rise and fall of one group of post–World War II Italian citizens who immigrated to New York City between the 1950s and the 1970s. For a few decades until the 2010s, these people were politically active in local and state politics in the area of the NYS 15th senatorial district, Queens County, and instrumental in the twenty-year career of Italian American New York State Senator Serphin Maltese. We define these individuals dual or binational ethnic-political brokers who utilize resources as Italian American community leaders in order to influence both American politics and Italian politics.

Lincoln Kirstein’s Social Modernism and the Cultural Front

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Harris
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter takes a biographical approach to Lincoln Kirstein’s creation of a modernist theory of ballet to situate its development in the 1930s cultural wing of the Popular Front and explore its evolution through and after World War II. Fueled by the cultural front’s belief in the role of the arts in social revolution, Kirstein seized the opportunity to decouple ballet from existing biases about its elitism and triviality, and formulate new ideas about its social relevance in the Depression period. After exploring the development of Kirstein’s social modernism in the cultural front, chapter 2 then turns to the challenges posed to the 1930s belief that art could be productively combined with politics through two major turning points in Kirstein’s life. These are his experiences in World War II, and the erosion of his own artistic role in the ballet company after the formation of the New York City Ballet and the ascendance of George Balanchine’s dance-for-dance-sake aesthetic in the late 1940s. The chapter illustrates Kirstein’s attempts to negotiate the social modernist aesthetic he crafted under the wing of the cultural front within the volatile political, economic, and artistic circumstances of World War II, anticommunism, and the Cold War.

scholarly journals Police Misconduct, Community Opposition, and Urban Governance in New York City, 1945–1965

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Themis Chronopoulos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
World War ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Black Freedom

In the post–World War II period, the police department emerged as one of the most problematic municipal agencies in New York City. Patrolmen and their superiors did not pay much attention to crime; instead they looked the other way, received payoffs from organized crime, performed haphazardly, and tolerated conditions that were unacceptable in a modern city with global ambitions. At the same time, patrolmen demanded deference and respect from African American civilians and routinely demeaned and brutalized individuals who appeared to be challenging their authority. The antagonism between African Americans and the New York Police Department (NYPD) intensified as local and national black freedom organizations paid more attention to police behavior and made police reform one of their main goals.

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