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Author: paultremblay Date: 2011-01-28 06:18:30 +0100 (Fri, 28 Jan 2011) New Revision: 6697 Added: trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/endnotes.rst Modified: trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/footnotes.rst Log: Better tests for footnotes. Added: trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/endnotes.rst =================================================================== --- trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/endnotes.rst (rev 0) +++ trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/endnotes.rst 2011-01-28 05:18:30 UTC (rev 6697) @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +The Modernize Main Street campaign created during the Depression years +represented a significant effort to revitalize the central business dis- +tricts of American communities [#note1]_. + +Promoted through trade journals and design competitions, the +idea of updating commercial buildings with modern materials and streamlined +design was therefore, one way of renewing citizen’s interest in +consumption [#note2]_. + +Prior to the 1920s, most American citizens tended to “make do” and reuse +material goods instead of purchasing new items each year [#note4]_. + +Advertising strategies to convince people to buy products that were not +absolute necessities for daily life (or were absolutely needed at the time) +soon became the focus of marketing executives [#note5]_. + +Popular magazines with mass distribution like *Ladies’ Home Journal* and *The +Saturday Evening Post* dis- played suggestive advertisements instilling a +desire for consumable products. Marketing ideas based on planned obsolescence +and repackaged goods encour- aged a development of this “modern” consumer +culture [#note6]_. + +An increased cultural emphasis on consumption as a capitalist value challenged +Puritan morals which began to decline by the end of the 1920s [#note7]_. + + +1938 [*]_. $112,457,506 + +1939 [*]_. $112,457,506 + +.. Year Amount +.. 1933 $33,000,000 +.. 1934 $37,861,600 +.. 1935 $69,036,398 +.. 1936 $97,310,000 +.. 1937 $124,536,283 +.. 1939 $126,159,914 +.. 1940 $130,101,332 +.. 1941 $133,987,740 + + +.. [*] There was a recession in 1938 which dampened spending on modernizing. + The 1938 figure, however, was still above the spending of 1936. + +.. [*] second ere was a recession in 1938 which dampened spending on modernizing. + The 1938 figure, however, was still above the spending of 1936. + +.. class:: endnotes +.. rubric:: Endnotes + + +.. [#note1] Esperdy, Gabrielle. “Modernizing Main Street: Everyday Architecture and + the New Deal.” Dissertation. (The City University of New York, 1999). Ann + Arbor, Michigan: UMI, 2000, 327. + + para NOTE + +.. [#note2] Gebhard, David. *Art Deco in America*. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, + 1996), 14. + + +.. [#note4] Horowitz, Daniel. *The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Towards the + Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940*. Baltimore: John Hopkins University + Press, 1985, 114. + +.. [#note5] Filene, Edward A. *The Next Steps in Retailing*. (New York: Harper and + Brothers, Inc., 1937): 2 + +.. [#note6] Ewan, Stuart. *All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary + Culture*. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1988, 47. + +.. [#note7] Horowitz, Daniel. *The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Towards the Con- + sumer Society in America, 1875-1940*, 134-135. + Property changes on: trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/endnotes.rst ___________________________________________________________________ Added: svn:keywords + Author Date Id Revision Added: svn:eol-style + native Modified: trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/footnotes.rst =================================================================== --- trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/footnotes.rst 2011-01-28 05:17:16 UTC (rev 6696) +++ trunk/sandbox/paultremblay/test_files/footnotes.rst 2011-01-28 05:18:30 UTC (rev 6697) @@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ An increased cultural emphasis on consumption as a capitalist value challenged Puritan morals which began to decline by the end of the 1920s [#note7]_. -1938[*]_. $112,457,506 +1938 [*]_. $112,457,506 + +1939 [*]_. $112,457,506 + .. Year Amount .. 1933 $33,000,000 .. 1934 $37,861,600 @@ -39,7 +42,10 @@ .. [*] There was a recession in 1938 which dampened spending on modernizing. The 1938 figure, however, was still above the spending of 1936. +.. [*] second ere was a recession in 1938 which dampened spending on modernizing. + The 1938 figure, however, was still above the spending of 1936. + .. [#note1] Esperdy, Gabrielle. “Modernizing Main Street: Everyday Architecture and the New Deal.” Dissertation. (The City University of New York, 1999). Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI, 2000, 327. |