The Elusive Eden

Chapter Twenty-One

1. Why were transience and homelessness such a problem in California during the Depression?
2. What were the Technocracy and “ergs?”
3. What was the Utopian Society and the “New Economic Order?”
4. What was The Townsend Plan and how did it work? Who was Dr. Francis E. Townsend?
5. What did “Ham and Eggs” mean in California after 1937?
6. Who were Robert Noble and Willis and Lawrence Allen?
7. How did “Thirty Dollars Every Thursday” actually work?
8. Who was Dorothy Lange?
9. What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Public Works Administration
10. What was the Central Valley Project?
11. Who was Upton Sinclair? What was EPIC?
12. What was The Jungle?