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The Great Depression devastated the economy of the area with its textile, carpet, glass and other light industry.
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Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920s, the dislocations of the Depression, the common ethos of Materialism everywhere, all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike Fink and the Great Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little People.
* Droughts like the ' dust bowl ' of the Great Depression in the U. S. turned farmland into desert.
In particular, he notes that investment spending remained positive in all recessions where there are data, except for the Great Depression.
28, 000 men were sent to fight in World War I. Adelaide enjoyed a post-war boom but, with the return of droughts, entered the Great Depression of the 1930s, later returning to prosperity under strong government leadership.
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
He also developed, during the Great Depression, the populist economic theory of " Direct Credits ", according to which banks are the cause of all economic woe, the oppressors of both capital and labour.
As the Great Depression began, Stone reduced his workforce and improved training.
Leaving his new wife with her parents in Amesbury, Massachusetts, he subsequently returned to New York in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression.
The 1931 census was postponed to 1936 because of the Great Depression.
The Negro National League did well until 1930, but folded during the Great Depression.
In 1931 MacDonald's government fell apart under the Great Depression, and the Liberals agreed to join his National Government, dominated by the Conservatives.
Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.
These ideas were informed by events prior to the Great Depression when — in the opinion of Keynes and others — international lending, primarily by the U. S., exceeded the capacity of sound investment and so got diverted into non-productive and speculative uses, which in turn invited default and a sudden stop to the process of lending.
He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.
The Great Depression hit Berkeley hard, but not as hard as many other places in the U. S., thanks in part to the University.
Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job.
" Featuring the Tramp and Goddard as endurers of the Great Depression, it took ten and a half months to film.
The League of Nations labeled Chile the country hardest hit by the Great Depression because 80 % of government revenue came from exports of copper and nitrates, which were in low demand.
After the Great Depression Chilean economic policies changed toward import substitution industrialization and the Production Development Corporation was established.
The Art Deco movement died with the onset of the Great Depression and the outbreak of World War II.
Australia established its first central bank in 1920, Colombia in 1923, Mexico and Chile in 1925 and Canada and New Zealand in the aftermath of the Great Depression in 1934.
As industry in New England began to decline during the Great Depression and after World War II, Cambridge lost much of its industrial base.
China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 ( 2008 )
In 1999, the country fell into its first recession since the Great Depression.
These plans never materialised mainly due to the Great Depression.
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In the aftermath of the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, which devastated Tokyo, Heigo took the 13-year-old Akira to view the devastation.
Edo was repeatedly devastated by fires, with the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657 ( in which an estimated 100, 000 people died ) the most disastrous.
* 1892 – St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
* 1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
* 1888: Infrastructure reform movements begin when many cities are devastated by the Great Blizzard of ' 88.
His latest large scale resort project involved designing and rejuvenating the landscape, furniture, sculpture and gardens at Hayman Island and it ’ s private estates on Australia ’ s Great Barrier Reef, after they were devastated by tropical cyclones Anthony and Yasi.
It was devastated by the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, following which Nero seized much of the area to add to his personal domain.
The deadliest hurricane ever was the 1970 Bhola cyclone ; the deadliest Atlantic hurricane was the Great Hurricane of 1780 which devastated Martinique, St. Eustatius and Barbados.
According to the Bible, when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem following a decree from Cyrus the Great ( Ezra 1: 1-4, 2 Chron 36: 22-23 ), construction started at the original site of Solomon's Temple, which had remained a devastated heap during the approximately 70 years of captivity ( Dan.
The Great Hurricane of 1915 devastated much of the Parish, with multiple levee breaches on both sides of the Mississippi, a 12-foot storm surge, and hundreds of deaths.
Like most of eastern Arkansas, Clarendon was devastated by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
Next, development was stalled by the bust of the Florida land boom in the 1920s and Henry Flagler's death, and was finally devastated by the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The Great Fires of 1947 devastated part of Lyman.
On September 1, 1894 the township and surrounding area were devastated in the Great Hinckley Fire.
Located on the north bank of the Missouri River, Rhineland was devastated by water in the Great Flood of 1993.
The Great Depression of the late 1920s and two major floods ( 1917, 1937 ) devastated the city to the point that most if not all the city's industries had closed down for good.
The majority of the town was overcome by a ( weather related ) flood in 1923, and then devastated again by the Great Depression.
Frederick II ( 1754 – 1816 ), a prince who modelled himself on Frederick the Great, took part in the war against France in defiance of the wishes of his people, and when the French again invaded and devastated the country he retired to Erlangen, where he remained until after the conclusion of the peace of Lunéville on 9 February 1801.
At the time, Sichuan was China's most populous province, but it had been economically devastated by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, whose collective policies had collapsed the province's agricultural production to levels not seen since the 1930s, despite a great increase in the province's population.
He soon turned from the medical profession to the building trade, which suddenly became important in 1666 when the Great Fire of London devastated the City of London — the commercial district of London which at the time was still separate from Westminster, the seat of Britain's government.
Ostoher rebuilt the city in as a summer residence, and it became the capital of Gondor in, when King Tarondor moved the King's House from Osgiliath following the Great Plague, which devastated the population of the much larger and populous old capital.
When the market was devastated by the Great Kanto Earthquake, Yoshinoya moved to the new Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo in 1923.
However, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression devastated business and in January 1933, the Christie brothers companies went into receivership, the studio assets being acquired by another large film making company.
However, the Great Depression devastated the film industry and Sennett was forced to close his studio in 1933.
Southern Hyōgo Prefecture was severely devastated by the magnitude 7. 2 Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995, which destroyed major parts of Kobe and Awaji, as well as Takarazuka and neighboring Osaka prefecture, killing nearly 6, 500 people.
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