Sentences with phrase «during the depression in»

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

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.

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

Melba Liston grew up during the Depression in a family home where «notes stirred and rhythms bubbled.»

Many of the first generation of Absract Expressionists such as William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, David Smith, and Jack Tworkov were employed in the government - funded Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression in the mid-1930s.

Prior to the war, many of them participated in the Federal Art Project, (WPA) Works Progress Administration, which provided stipends during the depression in the Roosevelt administration.

During the Depression in New York, Pollock was desperately poor, often ill, and already (by 1936 - 7) plagued by alcoholism.

Not exact matches

Ever since Benjamin Graham spelled out the principles of value investing and demonstrated their potential to improve returns and reduce risk — this was during the Great Depression, after all — investors around the world have been crunching numbers, trying to determine if the companies they're interested in are undervalued or overvalued.

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.

There was even a recession during the Great Depression, say economists — and at the time it was the worst recession in the nation's history.

After the U.S. experience during the Great Depression, and after inflation and rising interest rates in the 1970s and disinflation and falling interest rates in the 1980s, I thought the fallacy of identifying tight money with high interest rates and easy money with low interest rates was dead.

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

«Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy rates and longer - term rates in the most affected countries (like the U.S.) were never reduced to such low levels,» wrote William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee at the OECD in Paris, in a recent paper.

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

Netflix description: «During the Great Depression, a stranger with a violent past poses as a preacher and rallies farmers to mount a strike in a rural Iowa community.»

He grew up in poverty during the Great Depression and dropped out of school at age 16.

Roosevelt's first inauguration in 1933 was during the height of the Great Depression.

FDR was president during one of the most troubling periods in US history: the Great Depression.

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.

«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.

The so - called paradox of thrift, popularized by famed Depression - era economist John Maynard Keynes, holds that during serious economic downturns it may be in each individual's interests to save money and repair his personal balance sheet.

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 timIn 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 timin the mid, early - 30s, mid-30s, it was a bad time.

For Roy Thomson, it all started with a $ 500 investment in a northern Ontario radio station during the Great Depression.

In three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great DepressioIn three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depressioin 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depressioin an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depression.

But in that moment Orr opened the door to a nine - year struggle during which his marriage would end, he would take a company public and then sell it, plunge into depression, drop out of the workforce, and take another company public, all while searching for a way to be a good boss and a good person.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

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.

He grew up during the Great Depression, had no running water in his house and his meals often consisted of what he called «wish sandwiches» (two slices of bread with jam and butter and he wished there was meat).

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 DepressioIn 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 Depressioin 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 Depressioin 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 Depressioin 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.

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

One lawmaker said it was the most important development in Nevada since the construction of the Hoover Dam southeast of Las Vegas during the Great Depression

If you read the history of Homestake mining (ABX bought Homestake out since December of 2001) during the Great Depression on my site, I think something very similar will occur in our future.

Rather, I'm talking about Professor Alvin Hansen, who coined the phrase «secular stagnation» in 1938, during the Great Depression.

In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, Hershey ignited a building mini-boom in his town in order to keep men workinIn the 1930s, during the Great Depression, Hershey ignited a building mini-boom in his town in order to keep men workinin his town in order to keep men workinin order to keep men working.

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.

He actually lived during the Great Depression and shares his investing experience during that time and in the aftermath.

The market volatility is spectacular and we are seeing more gyrations in this recession than we did during the Great Depression.

Early in the 20th century, the British economist John Maynard Keynes changed his position on monetary policy during the Great Depression famously stating,...

While some firms offered mortgage insurance in the early 1900s, those firms went bankrupt during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Likewise, nearly all of our challenges during the advancing half - cycle since 2009 can be traced to my 2009 decision to stress - test our market return / risk classification methods against Depression - era data, which inadvertently led us to overemphasize «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes that had reliably warned of market losses in prior market cycles across history.

Today in Japan, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio - Economic Development, workers who began their careers during the «lost decade» of the 1990s and are now in their 30s make up six out of every 10 cases of depression, stress, and work - related mental disabilities reported by employers.

But Krugman has a much bigger puzzle to explain away: if free markets in banking are the problem, why did Canada, which, during this period, had a far less regulated banking system than the US, not experience the panics we did, and why did no Canadian banks fail during the Great Depression while around 9000 US banks did?

You've got a historical background in your studies of the banking crises during the Great Depression, do you see economic history making a comeback?

In the US banks did that to home owners during the great depression.

Keep in mind we were seeing unemployment at 27 % or better during the Great Depression.

During the Great Depression, at a time when the vast majority of clergy in America disapproved of Roosevelt's New Deal reforms, the Christian Century endorsed his 1936 bid for reelection.

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).

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.

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.

In an Instagram post, she encouraged followers who may also suffer from depression to hold on to hope of better days, even during the most difficult times.