This week we're traveling back to 1950s Detroit with No Sudden Move! Join us to learn more about organized crime in Detroit, breakfast cereal, 20th century name changing patterns, air pollution in Los Angeles, and more!

Sources:

"Way Worse"

Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=way+worse&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true

Breakfast Cereal:

Anna Kang, "The Untold Truth of Honey Smacks," Mashed, https://www.mashed.com/203798/the-untold-truth-of-honey-smacks/ Wiki: "Honey Smacks," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Smacks Joel Stice, "The Untold Truth of Trix," Mashed, https://www.mashed.com/198934/the-untold-truth-of-trix/ Natasha Bruns, "Celebrating 60 Years of the Trix Rabbit," https://blog.generalmills.com/2019/08/celebrating-60-years-of-trix-rabbit/ "The Origin of the "Trix Rabbit,"" https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-origin-of-the-trix-rabbit/ Suzanne Raga, "11 Colorful Facts You Might Not Know About Trix," Mental Floss, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/74134/11-colorful-facts-you-might-not-know-about-trix-cereal EA Wartella, AH Lichtenstein, and CS Boon (eds.), "History of Nutrition Labeling," Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols: Phase I Report, Institute of Medicing (US) Committee on Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols (Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2010). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209859/

Air Pollution in LA:

"History of Reducing Air Pollution in the United States," EPA, https://www.epa.gov/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate-change/accomplishments-and-success-air-pollution-transportation Sarah Gardner, "LA Smog: the battle against air pollution," Marketplace NPR, https://www.marketplace.org/2014/07/14/la-smog-battle-against-air-pollution/ Bennet Goldstein and Howell Howard, "Antitrust Law and the Control of Auto Pollution: Rethinking the Alliance between Competition and Technical Progress," Environmental Law 10:3 (Spring 1980): 517-558. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43265516 Randy Alfred, "Attack of the L.A. Smog Archives," WIRED (26 jULY 2010). https://www.wired.com/2010/07/gallery-smog/ Sarah S. Elkind, "Influence through Cooperation: The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Air Pollution Control in Los Angeles, 1943-1954," in How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, 52-82 (Unviersity of North Carolina Press, 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807869116_elkind.7 David Vogel, "Protecting Air Quality," in California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader, 154-188, (Princeton University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77k1p.9 James M. Lents and William J. Kelly, "Clearing the Air in Los Angeles," Scientific American 269:4 (October 1993): 32-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24941646

Organized Crime:

Robert A. Rockaway, "The Notorious Purple Gang: Detroit's All-Jewish Prohibition Era Mob," Shofar 20, 1 (2001) Giacomo "Black Jack" Tocco: The Last of the Old Detroit Partnership. American Mafia History. Available at https://americanmafiahistory.com/giacomo-black-jack-tocco/ "FBI Detroit History," FBI.gov, available at https://www.fbi.gov/history/field-office-histories/detroit

Name Changes:

An Anonymous Jewish American, "I Changed My Name," The Atlantic, 1948, available at https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1948/02/i-changed-my-name/306252/ Kirsten Fermaglich, "What's Uncle Sam's Last Name? Jews and Name Changing in New York City During the WWII Era," Journal of American History 102, 3 (2015) Kirsten Fermaglich, "Too Long, Too Foreign. . . Too Jewish: Jews, Name Changing, and Family Mobility in New York City, 1917-1942," Journal of American Ethnic History 34, 3 (2015)

Film Background:

IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11525644/ Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_sudden_move Brian Tallerico, "No Sudden Move" (1 July 2021), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-sudden-move-movie-review-2021