Sentences with phrase «by the great depression»

Pittsburgh, like the rest of the country, was devastated by the Great Depression, the Strip District dependent as it was on a thriving industry and trade being especially hard - hit.

Family farms played a large role in mitigating the suffering caused by the great depression.

In 1931 there was a governmental split caused by the great depression, in which the Labour prime minister lost the support of his own party.

«The Grapes of Wrath»: Released a year after John Steinbeck's 1939 landmark novel, the John Ford - directed drama stars Henry Fonda as Oklahoma parolee Tom Joad, whose family of farmers are driven out of work by the Great Depression.

The Beetle comes from the early 1930s, when the German car industry was desperately seeking its own Ford Model T, some form of cheap transportation that would not only put ordinary people on wheels but also restart the economic engine of a society crushed by the Great Depression.

The United States in the 1870s and»80s was deep in turmoil — a brash young nation torn by a great depression, mired in scandal and corruption, rocked by crises in government, violently conflicted over science and race, and fired up by spiritual and sexual upheavals.

In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II.

The industry was severely impacted by the Great Depression and is no longer one of the city's largest.

Originally published in 1934, the original text was strongly influenced by the Great Depression, so it's continuing relevance today proves this is a timeless read.

Like many other American cities, Asheville was greatly impacted by the Great Depression.

The Federal Housing Administration was created by congress in 1934, in response to the economic devastation caused by the Great Depression.

His career began in the 1930s, when he used the style of social realism to convey both the struggles and everyday lives of black people, shaped not only by racism but also by the Great Depression.

It had been influenced not only by the Great Depression, but also by the muralists of Mexico such as David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera.

She covered thousands of miles of the United States with her camera to document and publicize the need for federal assistance to those hardest hit by the Great Depression and agricultural blight.

With some 100 works by forty artists, The Left Front examines the crucial moment in American history when artists took to their printing presses (and brushes and cameras) amid the economic and social devastation brought on by the Great Depression.

One of her most famous series, After Walker Evans, in which Levine photographed works by the Great Depression photographer, is not available for sale at all.

Based on scholars, this technique was influenced by the Great Depression in the country, as well as the works of some renowned muralists during that era including Diego Rivera, his wife Frida Kahlo and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

It was part of the Mortgage Lifter Tomato Workshop with artists Anne Hars and Stephanie Allespach, inspired by a Great Depression story about «Radiator Charlie,» who developed a gigantic tomato and sold so many seedlings at $ 1 each that he paid his mortgage of $ 6,000.

The industry was severely impacted by the Great Depression and is no longer one of the city's largest.

Like many other American cities, Asheville was greatly impacted by the Great Depression.

««The Greatest Generation» was shaped by the Great Depression and Baby Boomers were impacted by the oil crises throughout the 1970s.

Not exact matches

The Great Depression was primarily started by the Wall Street crash of 1929, as well as bank failures in the early 1930's.

As the U.S. slid into the Great Depression, two members of Congress introduced a bill whose goal was to protect struggling American farmers by raising tariffs on agricultural imports.

The price of copper dropped during The Great Depression, and by 1938 the supply of copper in Kennecott had run out.

«As Robert Shiller's new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets «has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Canadians increasingly becoming entrepreneurs and small business owners By Matt Lundy October 03, 2012 Following the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression, an increasing number of Canadians have taken control of their earning potential and become their own bosses.

According to recent data analyzed by the real - estate tracking company Trulia, the last time this many young Americans were living with a parent, relative, or sibling, it was 1940 — just one year out from the Great Depression.

Mortgage insurance was conceived in the 1930s by the U.S. government's Federal Housing Administration to promote home ownership during the Great Depression.

George H.W. Bush's stock market shed part of its gains by the time he left office, while Herbert Hoover's stock market gains began to slide in October 1929 at the start of the Great Depression.

But by all accounts, this recession is the severest since the Great Depression.

For all you kids out there, Bennett was the Conservative prime minister who did the Liberals a favour by winning the 1930 election, relieving William Lyon Mackenzie King of the responsibility of dealing with the Great Depression.

People often point to how risky stocks are by citing the Great Depression.

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The Smoot - Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was followed by tariff increases by Canada and Europe in tit - for - tat restrictions that greatly slowed the US and global recovery from the Great Depression.

It should be clear, then, that the «great depression» of the 1870s is merely a myth — a myth brought about by misinterpretation of the fact that prices in general fell sharply during the entire period.

The results were so disastrous that the trade war prolonged the Great Depression, contributed to the rise of Nazis and other fascist leaders, and sank US exports by 61 % from 1929 to 1933 before being repealed in 1934.

According to a study published by UBS earlier this year, Americans aged 21 to 36 are the most fiscally conservative generation since the Great Depression.

A bipartisan majority of senators has chosen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by handing big banks and their lobbyists a package of deregulatory gifts, increasing the risks to financial stability and the likelihood of consumer abuse, including racial discrimination in mortgage lending.

You shouldn't be surprised to learn that periods of deflation are often accompanied by recessions and depressions like the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Well - known U.S. stock market crashes include the market crash of 1929, which resulted from economic decline and panic selling and sparked the Great Depression, and Black Monday (1987), which was also largely caused by mass panic.

Bond yields in Japan fell to 1.125 per cent, equal to the lowest recorded by historians in the past 4,000 years, and well below the level of 1.75 per cent reached by US bonds in the Great Depression (Graph 2).

From the low of the 1929 plunge, the stock market would then lose an additional 79 % of its value by its eventual bottom in 1932 because of add - on policy errors that resulted in the Great Depression.

Yeah, by saving us from sinking into another Great Depression, keeping our auto industry from going the way of the dinosaurs.

The onset of the Great Depression, in which the ranks of the worthy poor expanded dramatically, occasioned widespread experiments in the construction of housing projects sponsored by the federal and state government.

We have been moving toward globalization for centuries, but the process was interrupted by the communist revolution in Russia, the Great Depression, World War II and the cold war that followed.

But by then several million people were out of work and banks were failing all over the country, and by 1933 — in the depths of the Great Depression — the number of unemployed had reached 16 million, or about one - third of the available work force.

The recession that started right after FDR's reelection in 1936 canceled all gains made by the New Deal and perpetuated the Great Depression until the clouds of war came.

Like his European counterparts, whose liberalism was disillusioned by the advent of World War I, Niebuhr was jaded by World War I but even more so by thirteen years in a parish in industrial Detroit and the Great Depression.

Employees at Whitey's Ice Cream — founded in the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 by white - haired Chester «Whitey» Lindgren — work hard to do more than just manufacture and sell ice cream.

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