His father, a furrier, lost his business in the Depression and moved the family to Newark, N.

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"It was always important to the girls that they were the children of immigrant parents, and when their father's business was wiped out during the Depression, the sisters left school and went out on the road to sing, using their music to support their family as best they could, " the biography said.

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About this time last year, in an article published on the Huffington Post, Stanley A. Dashew described starting his first business in the midst of the Great Depression and half-dozen successful businesses since that time (not to mention 40 patents).

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That act began the job of dismantling restriction on speculation that had been in place since the Depression and that speculation will lead to business sector booms and of course, what goes up must come down.

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Is employee depression on the radar of big business?

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Kurson quots the founder of Ameritrade as saying that he doesn't even look at the price of his stock, and the yacht builders saying that theirs is a depression-proof business.

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My Grandmother once told me about a business decision my Grandfather, Benjamin Bornstein, made during the Great Depression.

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In the aftermath of the harshest economic downturn since the Great Depression, with banks still afraid to lend and small business owners afraid to borrow, that's an encouraging trend.

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