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Perspectives on the Indiana Economy, 1981-1982

Interviewee
Heinley, William E. February 23, 1982 

Call Number
82-006

Physical Description

49 pages; 3 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 150 minutes; index

Interviewer
King, R.T.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

William Heinley, born in 1915, begins with his early life and extends through the nineteen seventies. The account heavily focuses on the twenties and thirties with such topics as farming methods, land equipment prices, effects of the Great Depression, and New Deal legislation. Crop introductions, livestock farming and mechanization are concerns during the forties and fifties, while skyrocketing land prices and the decline of the automotive industry have a detrimental impact through the end seventies.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Purdue University
    • Occupation Names
    • extension agent
    • Personal Names
    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
    • Place Names
    • Columbia City, Indiana
    • Whitley County, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • Great Depression
    • 1932 Presidential Election
    • agriculture economy
    • agricultural policy
    • agricultural technology
    • business growth
    • cash crops
    • equipment costs
    • farm life
    • hybrid corn
    • land price increase
    • subsistence farming