The author most likely included this paragraph to explain some of the reasons for downplaying the seriousness of the situation.
describe the ways in which people overreact whenever danger is suspected.
persuade the reader that newspapers always blow things out of proportion.
illustrate the idea that scientists frequently have to hide the truth from civilians.

representative government

this forms a narrow, steep sided inlet (sometimes deeper than 1300 metres) connected to the sea. the terminal moraine pushed down the valley by the glacier is left underwater at the fjord’s entrance, causing the water at the neck of the fjord to be shallower than the main body of the fjord behind it.

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your answer is 1930's

explanation

this is just around the time the great depression was starting and putting the us ecnomy into ecnomic failure causing the goverment to take a much larger rule to try and pieace it back together