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07/18/11 Dear Editor, Webster defines PIONEER as "one who goes before - preparing the way for others." I like to think of my late father Harry Semas as a pioneer. He moved to Gilroy in December l932, at the height of the Great Depression, hoping to make a living off the land for his small family, my mother and 4-year-old me. Growing sugar beets was his expertise. Somehow, Wells Fargo Bank took a risk in ...
07/17/11 During the throes of the Great Depression, about 800 men tried to dig themselves out of a financial hole by shoveling mounds of dirt in east Macon.
07/14/11 Even the entry-level 1935 Buick convertible Model 46C had a base price of $925 and that was in the middle of the Great Depression. Consequently, many young drivers who had just acquired a driver's license were more interested in more affordable cars like second- and third-hand Model T Fords. One ...
07/14/11 Sometimes, the best things in life really are free, especially during an economic downturn the likes of which we haven't experienced since the Great Depression. We give you local Exhibit A: the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve on the San Mateo County coast. The reserve, roughly 32 acres featuring three miles of pristine beach, is located off California Street in Moss Beach.
07/10/11 ATHENS - The University of Georgia is weighing whether to demolish three historic buildings this week, including one structure built during the Great Depression.
07/10/11 There's no question the economic recovery is going slowly. There's also no question that the gap between rich and poor Americans has grown wider than any time since the Great Depression. Analysts explore the links between income inequality and troubles in the overall economy. read more
07/07/11 The 1930s were, of course, the depths of the Great Depression, but the decade was also an era of ocean liners, big band jazz and stylish luxury automobiles.
07/07/11 share: digg facebook twitter In this property-holders' democracy, elected representatives have naturally sought to facilitate the accumulation of property, as Walter Russell Mead has pointed out in his unfailingly interesting Via Media blog on the-american-interest.com. In the Great Depression, when 25 percent of Americans still lived on farms, government started subsidizing producers of certain ...
07/06/11 GOP presidential contenders Michelle Bachman and Newt Gingrich figured out yet another ploy to knock President Obama. Blame him for joblessness among Blacks now at nearly Great Depression levels, especially for young Black males.
07/05/11 One theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as bad as the Great Depression.
07/05/11 East Boulder County is descending into the devastating vortex of the Great Depression this summer -- though, luckily for those who live here, only through literature and photos.
07/04/11 WELLESLEY - The last time construction workers replaced the Cedar Street bridge, in 1936, Gordon Miller was 12 and America was in the throes of the Great Depression.
07/04/11 The second-youngest of 13 children, Ed Carlo wanted to enlist in the Army when he was 17; he figured he would be doing his parents a favor. The country was reeling from the Great Depression, and money was hard to come by.
07/01/11 With the economy struggling, the housing market in the dumps and early summer weather out of whack, what better way to way to cheer up than to see an inspiring story about the Great Depression?
06/30/11 Almost 80 years ago, during the Great Depression, a group of women teamed up to form the Montgomery Farm Women's Cooperative Market as a place to sell their wares and make a living for themselves.
06/26/11 Local family-owned business Acme Top & Awning Co. survived the Great Depression and the San Angelo flood in 1936 and, at 84 years old, is still going strong despite the current recession.
06/23/11 Government officials and economists tell us that the so-called Great Recession hit our country in 2007, on the heels of a drastic correction in the home mortgage market. Since that time, few in our country have escaped the ill effects of a the national economic crisis that is the worst our country has seen since the Great Depression.
06/23/11 Historian Edward O. Frantz challenges conventional wisdom on U.S. politics by examining the racial issues and complex political rhetoric of the period from the Civil War to the Great Depression.
06/20/11 A long line of unemployed and homeless men wait in New York to get free dinner at the municipal lodging house during the Great Depression, circa 1930. (PHOTO CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES) FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Here's a sobering thought: A new report from Capital Economics describes the current housing market bust as, "larger and faster [...]
06/19/11 Robert Fessler was a recent high school graduate when the Great Depression hit. But he was full of dreams, which he wrote about in a series of diaries. His daughter, who read the diaries after his death, found them a revelation about her father, who in the end sacrificed many of his ambitions to raise a family.
06/18/11 We keep hearing this little recession being compared to the Great Depression. If you are directly affected, it's as bad as any time. But overall, it's a far cry from the GD. | 
