The Great Depression
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Just as our grandparents learned from the Great Depression, so, too, I believe many young people are now going to be smarter about money
We gather here tonight in times of extraordinary difficulty, for the nation and for the world. The economy remains in the midst of a historic recession, the worst we've seen since the Great Depression.
Although US suicide rates did increase slightly during the years of the Great Depression, reaching a peak rate of 17.4/100,000 in 1933, subsequent US recessions have not been found to lead to increased national rates of suicide in the period of or immediately following each recessionMore quotes »
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"Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film 'The Great Gatsby'" review: Jazz to hip-hop
from a modern-day Gatsby's perspective, declaring that it's "1929 still," the period of showy extravagance before the Great Depression . He introduces himself -- "Write like Mark Twain, Jay Gatsby, I park things, yellow cars, yellow gold like Slick Rick ."That's Read more »
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Centenarian: Elynore Willey Brindley
Willey Brindley was born March 25, 1913. She attended Beaver College (now Arcadia University) for two years until the Great Depression , then worked in fashion. She married Stuart R. Brindley in 1936 and had two daughters. Elynore was widowed in 1986. She Read more »
Around the web
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Move Over Red Velvet Cake: Pineapple Upside-Down Cake is The New Boss in Town
velvet cake, named for its red-brown colour, has made a big comeback since its origins during the Great Depression. It is now available at bakeries, cupcake shops, grocery stores, and restaurants. It even comes in a boxed cake mix. In the 1970s, red velvet 5/20/13 from The Epoch Times Read more »
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Of Mice and Men
Final Draft The novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, shows the prevalent loneliness of Americans during The Great Depression. He focuses on the lives of migrant workers in particular, and through his use of archetype characters he exhibits the 5/20/13 from EssayClub.com Read more »
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New Deal
the darkest hour of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the White House in 1932, promising "a new deal for the American people." The package of legislative reforms that came to be known as the New Deal permanently and dramatically transformed 5/20/13 from EssayClub.com Read more »
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Burgers Just Like the Old Days
at 9|8c, George heads to northern Mississippi to taste the state’s classic burgers that haven’t changed since the days of the Great Depression. He also gets a bite of a burger that goes nicely with the Mississippi blues. The “dough” burger became a hit during 5/20/13 from Travel Channel Read more »
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When the Oil Boom Turns to Bust
a daily newspaper job in 1981, I returned in 1984 to see the boomtown I had known transformed into something out of the Great Depression. Billboards advertised churches, roads were empty and buildings see-through. Friends who had graduated from Rice University from The Street Read more »
