While Fed policy was undoubtedly important, it was not the primary cause of the Great Depression or the economy's relapse in 1937.
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The American investor compared China's economic rise to the rapid growth seen in the U.S. in the 20th century with the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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The second world war (in which Mr Stevens served in the air force) ended America's Great Depression, and ended the need to look far and wide for work.
The war was the single biggest factor in finally helping the U.S. dig out of the Great Depression, largely because it generated jobs and exports.
The fact of the matter is because of the terrible recession, the worst recession in generations, the worst recession in anyone's lifetime here, the worst recession since the Great Depression, a great many jobs were lost.
In the Great Depression of the early 1930s America's output fell by 30%.
The four-day trading hiatus since the twin towers of the World Trade Center imploded on Tuesday morning has been the longest break in the U.S. since the special banking holidays ordered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
It planned to spearhead that by using a model from the Great Depression, when small neighbourhood groups in Canada and the U.S. would meet to listen to half-hour radio broadcasts, and discuss economic and agricultural problems like grain prices or water access.
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Bonnie and Clyde's exploits during the Great Depression earned them a place in American folklore.
In an interwar Britain convulsed by a fresh set of shocks - the great depression, mass unemployment, the rise of fascism in Europe - it's hardly surprising that readers looked on such places as a nostalgic reminder of an apparently simpler time before August 1914.
In the U.S. the recovery from the Great Depression was delayed several times and the rescue efforts eventually cost more, because each time the deficit spending and stimulus efforts were halted too soon because recovery was underway, the economy stumbled again, and required another round of support.
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The U.S. repealed Prohibition of alcohol at the height of the Great Depression, in part because of increasing violence and in part because of diminishing tax revenues.
The nation's 31st President has chronically been portrayed as passive in the face of the Great Depression and his successor, Franklin Roosevelt, as the exact opposite--an activist who, if he didn't actually cure the Depression, at least profoundly improved the nation's battered psychology.
Ed's class of 1930 was trying to join the workforce in the first spring of the Great Depression.
Beginning in 2007, when the U.S. faced the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression, Latinos have been hit hard.
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Growing up in a tough part of the Canadian city of Montreal during the Great Depression, the once undersized Weider's life started to turn when he began lifting a makeshift barbell.
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