Sentences with phrase «during the depression era»

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

Pouding chômeur is a classic french Canadian dish that was created during the Depression era as an inexpensive dessert that could be easily prepared and enjoyed for family dinners.

My parents were born during the depression era and were raised without credit debt at all.

During the Depression era, the ASPCA in New York recorded over 300,000 stray animals per year.

As it happened, the Mexican Mural Renaissance triggered a similar campaign of mural decoration in America during the Depression era of the 1930s.

Traditionally refers to American school, embodied by Ben Shahn and supported by the Federal Arts Project during the Depression era.

The exhibition reveals the diversity of styles that emerged during the Depression Era, through works by painters such as Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel and Philip Guston.

The Federal Housing Administration, created during the Depression era, has been a steadying presence in residential markets for the last two years, yet some buyers, sellers, and even practitioners remain hesitant about the agency's role, believing that obtaining federally backed mortgage loans requires more hoops to jump through than conventional mortgages do.

Not exact matches

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 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.

When we apply the methods that we developed for post-war data to Depression - era data, we find that there was clearly sufficient evidence from valuations and market action to warrant a strong avoidance of risk during much of that period, and eventually to establish a significant exposure to market fluctuations.

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.

We show how Fred Perry came to star in front of the Kop and how boxing bouts drew the crowds during the 1930s, when an era of economic depression brought times of strife.

«There are 50 young people whose lives are going to be transformed,» Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said during a brief news conference at Delmar's Five Rivers Environmental Education Center to publicize the start of the Excelsior Conservation Corps, whose name and mission gives a nod to the Depression - era Civilian Conservation Corps.

No matter how you slice it, however, their seeming diversity is only skin - deep: heirlooms are actually feeble and inbred — the defective product of breeding experiments that began during the Enlightenment and exploded thanks to enthusiastic backyard gardeners from Victorian England to Depression - era West Virginia.

Even during the good years we ate lima beans with salt pork, fried hominy, and other Depression - era foods such as beef barley soup.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Filmed in the Czech Republic more than two years ago, the American Depression - era drama «Serena» took a long time to get to the big screen, during which time its stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence...

My father served during WWII; therefore, he was eligible for the GI bill and able to complete a college education — not a possibility for a depression - era kid.

She had no missing sisters and her parents lived to ripe old age, but there is something about that era that keeps many people from discussing - or even remembering - it; whether the reasons be deep family secrets or the hardship of growing up on a farm during the depression.

During the post WWII era, the Great Depression was very fresh in people's minds.

A highly enjoyable, well - researched, somewhat romantic read that brings to life the era of the traveling circus and small town America during the Depression.

After the rapid rate of foreclosures during the «Great Depression era in the 1930's banks only allowed these loans in rare circumstances.

Of course, this era was before and during the Great Depression when there was real unemployment in the United States and soup lines and real suffering.

Counterpoints: American Art 1930 - 1945 is a rare opportunity to view the diverse trends concurrent in American art during the Great Depression and World War II eras.

This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era — including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Grant Wood — to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity.

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.

At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, «Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper» (June 27 — Oct. 12, 2014) consists of more than 70 watercolors, pastels, etchings, and linoleum and color screenprints produced primarily in the 1930s and 40s, during the era of the Great Depression and the Works Progress Administrations's Federal Arts Project.

Title II is in fact part of the far - reaching Communications Act of 1934, which was indeed instated during a period of depression and monopoly — but characterizing it that way is a bit like saying the Declaration of Independence is an «Enlightenment - era rule written by anti-government extremists.»

• FHA Loans are mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Commission (FHC), originating during the staggering amount of foreclosures and defaults that occurred in the 1930's when Depression Era struggles and abandoned homes were the norm across the United States.

It unfortunately lost its barn during the Great Depression but pieces of it still remain around town in houses built during that era and in our garage.