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- a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
- the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
How To Use Great Depression In A Sentence
- The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
- Like the mounting of Detroit Revealed, the creation of Rivera's murals in 1932-33 took place at the height of an economic and political crisis, namely the Great Depression. Vince Carducci: Revealing Detroit Photographically
- Discredited, Wovoka survived to die in the midst of the Great Depression.
- In the Great Depression, hobos who roamed transiently across North America invented pictographic graffiti languages which were cryptic to the police but well understood in their community.
- This multitool cigarette case from the Great Depression will put your pocket knife to shame. HUFFPOST HILL - Where Republicans Move Their Money
- Among these are the myth that the New Deal ended the Great Depression, that fascism was a plot by big business rather than a mass movement, and that "corporativism" was the rule by corporations of the state, rather than the rule of the state over corporations. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- Bankers have never been popular, but Washington's rejection of the $700bn bail-out for banks on Monday recalled the odium that attached to them in the Great Depression. A New Start
- No purchasing of luxuries for us, we are battening down the hatches and it's all "great depression" talk around here. Single gal seeks stimulation
- Then the great depression of the 1930s ruined the economy and Prince Industries' stock took a plummeting nosedive.
- Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era: They may be right yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era: They may be right'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Howe and Strauss, in "The Fourth Turning" (1997) predicted, through their saeculum view of the historical process, an era come upon us which would equal the American Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression eras.' Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era : They may be right
