On March 6, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, less than forty-eight hours after becoming president, ordered the suspension of all banking facilities in the United States. How the nation had reached such a desperate situation and how it responded to the banking ""holiday"" are examined in this book,...

A method for modeling geographic processes using cencus-type data is introduced in an analysis of male and female lung cancer mortality rates. The study area comprises the counties in those states which abut the Gulf of Mexico and the southeast Atlantic Coast of the United States. A spatially...