Sentences with phrase «during the depression many»

His hotel may be synonymous with Hollywood glitz and glamour, but Rosenthal grew up dirt poor 3,000 miles away in Medford, Mass. «I was born during the Depression — my dad was a plumber, and he worked 24/7 just trying to keep the family in the house,» he recalls.

My grandmother, born during the Depression, has a great anecdote.

Photos of America during the Depression, much like the mood of the country, are often bleak, available only in black and white.

Ross added nuance to that remark, speaking on a panel at Davos later in the day: «Nobody is trying to ignite what Smoot - Hawley did during the Depression,» Ross said, referring to legislation passed in 1930 that slapped tariffs on nations that shipped goods to the U.S. and arguably made the era's financial downturn even worse.

The National Labor Relations Act, passed during the Depression, expressly protects most workers who disclose their salaries.

«If I'm working with someone who grew up during the Depression, they don't spend a dime because the Depression is in their DNA,» Kay says.

In hindsight though my dad would have loved to have been an actor because he was kind of a ham, but it was during the depression years when I first grew up in the mid, early - 30s, mid-30s, it was a bad time.

It was actually his great - grandmother Carrie Hawkins who had started the business as a farm stand in rural Syracuse to make ends meet during the depression.

In his most recent interview to date, Vidal Sassoon has a highly personal and moving discussion with CNBC Meets presenter Tania Bryer in which he talks about his impoverished childhood, his years in a Jewish orphanage in the East End of London and candidly about how his mother had to hand him and his brother over, as she could not afford to look after them during the Depression.

... A little history here: During the Depression, the Dow hit its low, 41, on July 8, 1932.

Taking our methods to older data, we discovered that they also were heavily whipsawed during the Depression, when the same valuations we observed at the 2009 lows were followed by a further loss of two - thirds of the market's value.

During the Depression, consumer and business pessimism was pervasive.

I know you can't have plastic around the blade, but I can't see my dad or others who grew up during the depression and after paying these prices for a safety razor or worse yet a straight razor.

Let's calculate what drove returns during the Depression.

Now, because the U.S. experienced deflation during the Depression, Ezrati notes that the S&P 500 earned a real return of about 1 % during the decade starting from the 1929 peak.

Wow, sounds just the German's blaming Jews during the depression.

«16 During the Depression in America, for example, the word leisure was not popular.

Miss Helena Pitts told me that during the Depression when times were hard, she had to use her family's silver tea service as collateral on a loan.

My mother was brought up during the Depression by her own widowed mother and a clutch of spinster aunts, rigidly Victorian Southern Baptists all.

Finally, if overpopulation is indicated by unemployment (not strictly speaking a demographic measure, but one that is sometimes used as such), it would seem that the United States experienced serious overpopulation during the Depression (when fertility fell below replacement levels), and was least overpopulated in the mid-1960s (the years directly following the postwar baby boom).

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

4) Next, during the Depression stage, you will cancel all your pre-Christmas plans with friends and family in favor of hiding under the covers and questioning the existence of God.

You seem to forget or maybe didn't know that during the Depression, parents gave up their children to orphanages or to extended family to raise because they couldn't afford to feed them.

During the depression he loaded a bunch of Corinth men in the back of his truck and drove them all the way to Chicago to see the 1933 World's Fair.

The Book of Negro Folklore describes the practice of rent parties which flourished during the Depression.

Ottley worked at whatever jobs he could find during the Depression» as a bellhop, railroad porter, and social worker» until he found his true calling as a writer.

Born in 1920, Harrison grew up during the Depression and graduated from the University of Georgia before joining the Army in 1941.

During the Depression, you could go into Ike's and get a bowl of chili for a quarter, and it was the main meal of the day.»

My grandfather was taught to be a baker at CCC camps during the depression.

During the Depression, baking powder was rationed, but people still needed to make biscuits.

That was certainly true during the Depression era — and even we still did that up to the 1970s», Gary added.

A man who'd gone shoeless growing up in a two - bedroom shack after his daddy went bankrupt during the Depression, and then found his calling in a town that once postponed Halloween because it fell on a game night, and molded the lives of 1,700 of its kids because he never cut a player.

During the Depression he worked his way through college by sweeping floors for 25 cents an hour.

The illness and financial difficulties of his father during the Depression brought Luro back to Argentina in 1933, and at this point he took over active management of the racing and the El Moro stud.

In the U.S., they were all the rage in the Roaring»20s, leveled off during the Depression, nearly died out in the»50s and made a comeback during the»70s.

Fisher - Price was founded in 1930, during the Depression, which was difficult for many American business to survive.

Born and raised in Chicago, Mrs. Spandikow was one of four children whose family struggled during the Depression.

As I tell in my book, Unsinkable Spirit, my father had lost everything during the Depression and we moved out of town to avoid the creditors.

And, I would assume that women breastfed during the depression years, if for no other reason than financial motivation.

As part of the canned goods industry, which in general experienced solid growth during the Depression years, baby food in general and Gerber in particular did extremely well.64 First producing pureed vegetables and fruits - the process was termed «strained» or «sieved» at the time - Gerber soon added a line of cereals and within a few years introduced chopped produce and dinner combinations for older toddlers.

I was born during the Depression in a poor neighborhood, saw my brothers drafted into World War II, was drafted myself during the Korean War, built businesses, raised a family, and lost a daughter, all in the 70 years before I stepped into the newspaper world.

It's no idle phrase that FDR made Democracy safe for Capitalism by stilling the anger the «Masses» felt for Government during the Depression.

The 1932 Annual report of the Police Department stated, «During a Depression, it is the children who stand in the greatest danger of permanent injury.»

Town Hall, which was built during the Depression is a beautiful, stunning example of Greek Revival architecture.

To interpret health and disease patterns in this population, I'll have to find documents that deal with African - American life in cities during the Depression.»

Although employment could lead to stresses and lifestyle differences that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, the staggering unemployment during the Depression would have probably introduced intense stress.

Not surprisingly, the number of injuries related to automobiles, a luxury many people did without during the Depression, also swelled in the years of economic recovery.

During the Depression of the 1930's, thousands of «Townsend Clubs» and other groups organized to self - help with unemployment and poverty.

I'm not saying anyone should do the same but it was something they had during the depression.

Second, it protects against inflammatory responses created during depression.