The Great Depression lasted through the 1930s in America, finally dissipating just before the country mobilized for World War II. With factories suddenly working beyond capacity to supply the war ...

The Great Depression lasted through the 1930s in America, finally dissipating just before the country mobilized for World War II. With factories suddenly working beyond capacity to supply the war ...

Before radar had been invented a devastating hurricane hit America, surprising residents of the East Coast and killing more than 600 people. At the height of the Great Depression, more than a ...

In 1930, a rally of unemployed people became a riot as police charged the crowd. There were strikes and bitter clashes in many American ... the severity of the Great Depression.

Known as the Great Depression, the phenomenon plunged 1930s America into a dark period of scarcity, poverty, and hardship. As ...

The popularity of the radio continued to increase throughout the Great Depression. By 1930, around 40 per cent of the American population owned a radio set, and this number had more than doubled ...

Before the Christmas break, we ran a short series on how the Great Depression unfolded in ... Is this really the 1930s all over again? None other than Ray Dalio of Bridgewater, the world's biggest ...

Last week, we began looking at why the 1929 stockmarket crash turned into the Great Depression ... At the start of 1930, Fisher warned in Time magazine that the world needed to reconsider the ...

The longest recession in American history took place between 1929 and 1939. Known as the Great ... supply in the 1930s, which strangled liquidity and effectively prolonged the depression.