Sentences with phrase «crushing economic depressions»

There have been no senseless bloodbaths like World War I and Vietnam, no crushing economic depressions, no cycles of assassination and rioting to foment disillusionment.

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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.