great depression
- n the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
- n a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
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- Museum seeks items, memories from Great Depression
The Door County Historical Museum is looking for information or items related to the Great Depression in the U.S.
June 12, 2013 - Door County Advocate - Vintage bridal dresses on display
Here comes the bride! And she's wearing some of the coolest vintage wedding dresses from the late 1800s through the Great Depression.
June 12, 2013 - FOX 5 Washington D.C. - 92-year-old instructor embodies UNLV’s lifelong learning program
“Was anyone else alive during the Great Depression? Just me?” Ruth Elliott grinned at her students, who had exploded with laughter. Elliott, who will turn 92 in July and describes herself as being in her 92nd year of life, simply shrugged. Her question wasn't completely out of left field. Her class was entirely composed of retired and semiretired individuals, all of them at least 50 years old ...
June 11, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun