Chapter 27

1. the government agency that regulates and licenses televisin, telephone, telegraph, radio, atelevisioncommunications industries
6. Inflation that occurred after the war
7. Levitt & Son's first development consisted of 2,000 homes that the company rented to married veterans at $65 a month.
9. an unprecedented population explosion
12. homes in small residential communities surrounding cities
13. helps ease veterans’ return to civilian life,
15. expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.
18. a company that offers similar products or services in many locations.
19. a number of Southern Democrats
20. developed a vaccine for the crippling disease poliomyelitis—polio.

2. a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries
3. renewal: a program that redevelops blighted areas of a city to improve the quality of life for residents
4. buying material goods, came to be equated with success.
5. a name that has come to mean music that’s both black and white music that is American.
8. means of communication reaching large audiences
10. hired hands
11. was president after Franklin D.Roosevelt’s
14. an extension of Roosevelt’s New Deal
16. eliminated federal economic support, discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans.
17. style of music characterized by the use of improvisation