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Great Depression
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  • I'd heard of the Great Depression years before when I'd played Annie, but the slides of men in hats and long coats lined up in front of soup kitchens were new to me.†   (source)
  • Government officials thought this would solve the unemployment associated with the Great Depression (it didn't).†   (source)
  • It ended as the Great Depression hit Northern economies hard.†   (source)
  • My grandmother's parents left Havana in the 1930s in search of work; at the time Jamaica was an island of relative prosperity amid the worldwide Great Depression.†   (source)
  • Both of these men were fortunate and skilled enough to avoid the brunt of the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • "Well, my granddad's parents lost everything in the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • The explanation has to do with two of the great cataclysmic events of the twentieth century: the Great Depression and World War II.†   (source)
  • We're just getting off the Great Depression but it'll be good again once we get to World War II."†   (source)
  • She arrived in New York just in time for the first Thanksgiving Day of the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • Starting in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the government began a policy to keep prices from rising or falling too much.†   (source)
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  • Jackson, Mississippi, in the Great Depression wasn't so different from the Congo thirty years later, except that in Jackson we knew of some that had plenty and I guess that did make us restless from time to time.†   (source)
  • The city was inundated with middle-class arrivals from the Midwest, especially in the years leading up to the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • The fits themselves are mostly preceded by great depression of spirits, shedding of tears, sickness, palpitation of the heart, &c….†   (source)
  • I took it all for granted then; in my home, it was as if the Great Depression was only a troublesome rumor.†   (source)
  • Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.†   (source)
  • I could never have imagined that I—a slave terrorized by Hatsumomo's wickedness—had lived a relatively fortunate life through the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • But the 1929 stock market crash, followed by the Great Depression and the Second World War, caused a decline in the parks.†   (source)
  • The seventh and final child in a family economically exhausted by the Great Depression, Dempsey's athletic prowess—he was an all-state quarterback on his high-school football team and an all-state guard on the basketball team—got him out of Pequot Lakes, a tiny fish-crazy town in northern Minnesota, and sent him on a path to the wider world.†   (source)
  • The Great Depression ran through their lives.†   (source)
  • About how he'd dropped out of school when he was twelve and found a job in his uncle's garage; how he'd first met Clara at church when he was fourteen years old and knew in that instant that he was going to marry her; how Tuck's entire family, including his uncle, had moved north in search of work a few years into the Great Depression and never came back.†   (source)
  • But the 1929 stock market crash, followed by the Great Depression and the Second World War, caused a decline in the parks.†   (source)
  • Not in San Antonio during the Great Depression nor in St. Louis' worst neighborhoods did he find such squalid living conditions.†   (source)
  • Born in 1912, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian STUDS TERKEL moved to Chicago shortly before the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • And she bought one from a Sante Fe gift shop during a trip the little family made out West during the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • Only his wife was looking at him, her face alight with interest as he discussed the value of hard labor, then the deplorable lack of initiative in the younger generation, then the benefits conferred by having lived through the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • The Great Depression was never far from my parents' thoughts; they suffered through the worst economic depression to ever hit the United States when they were younger.†   (source)
  • After my father was dead and the Great Depression remained with us, I got a part-time job there.†   (source)
  • Our fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars, and who carved out a new charter of peace for the world.†   (source)
  • He glanced over at a picture on the wall of his dad taken during the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • This was of course one of President Roosevelt's national measures to combat the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • I didn't know it at the time, but the streets were empty mostly because of the Great Depression; in any other era Miyagawa-cho might have been busier even than Gion.†   (source)
  • During the Great Depression, tourism plummeted, people moved away, and about one-fifth of the city's housing sat vacant.†   (source)
  • ALTHOUGH BUD, NOT BUDDY is fictional, many of the situations Bud encounters are based on events that occurred in the 1930s, during a time known as the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • I was surprised too to see Mother spending money almost unrestrainedly, making plans for sutras to be chanted on Granny's behalf at the Chionin Temple, purchasing lotus-bud arrangements from the undertaker—all of it right in the midst of the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, Congress passed legislation to prevent employers from exploiting the nation's most vulnerable workers.†   (source)
  • My belief came into being during the most traumatic moment in American history, the Great Depression of the 1930s.†   (source)
  • If those in this house survived the Panic of 1893 or the Great Depression, or bathed with cold water and used an outhouse, then surely I know I can weather high gas prices.†   (source)
  • Then the Great Depression arrived.†   (source)
  • But although these disappointments caused me great depression at times, I pursued my other studies with unflagging interest, especially physical geography.†   (source)
  • At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.†   (source)
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