Sentences with phrase «industry during the depression»

This marks 18 % of the total economic downfall that occurred in the financial industry during the depression.

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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.

started writing in his early 40s after losing his job as an oil - industry executive during the great depression.

Yet, during the past 19 - 20 years, large proportions of Corporate America (and Real Estate America) were being savaged, going through experiences as devastating, or even more devastating, than had occurred during the Great Depression of 1930s for many industries.

San Pedro, which was abandoned by several residents during the 1940s as a result of the economic depression which followed the devastation of the 1931 hurricane and the decline in the coconut industry, was by the mid-1980s one of the most economically affluent communities in Belize.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

The first is the importance of being Jewish, the second is being born during the Great Depression, and the third is having parents or grandparents that worked in the garment industry.

The city's leather industry, led by the Bona Allen Company, as well as its location as a railway stop, caused the population to expand during the early 1900s until after the Great Depression had ended.

«In fact, since its establishment during the Great Depression, the FHA has evolved into the only option for buyers deemed a profit risk by the private industry and buyers living in areas inadequately served by the private industry.»

This new agency was created during the Great Depression, at a time when the mortgage - lending industry was drying up.

During the Great Depression, the company that would become United Technologies gave birth to the aviation industry.

«As a leading global franchisor, eliminating franchisees during the deepest downturn in the real estate industry since the Great Depression was a difficult decision, however, one we knew would pay significant dividends in years to come,» says Davidson.