Just the same, it might be wise to prepare to batten down the hatches, as seafaring men used to say when a storm was looming.

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It's never wise to generalize, yet it is safe to say that, as a group, the men and women who endured the Depression and World War II played it straight when it came to putting their trust in financial institutions.

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