David Loza

“The big three television companies (CBS, ABC, and NBC) measured their audiences in tens of millions: when CBS broadcast the episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy had a baby to coincide with the actress who played Lucy, Lucille Ball, also having a baby, on January 19, 1953, 68.8 percent of the country’s television sets were tuned in, a far higher proportion than were tuned in to Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration the following day.”
― Alan Greenspan, Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

“Deberían decirte que cuando deseas que se cumplan tus deseos mas profundos puede que debas sacrificar algo, pero cuando yo pedía todos esos deseos no podía ni siquiera llegar a imaginarme cual seria el precio a pagar. Ahora lose, tiene nombre y apellido.”
― Alina Not, Saltan chispas

“Eisenhower’s biggest domestic achievement was arguably the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which called for 41,000 miles of highways to be built by 1969 at an estimated cost of $ 25 billion. Predictably enough, the targets were missed: the first transcontinental interstate, I-80, was not finished until 1986 and the southern interstate, I-10, was not completed until 1990.”
― Alan Greenspan, Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

“The population of the Pacific states increased by 110 percent from 1940 to 1960.”
― Alan Greenspan, Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States