and if they fail, still two other; and if they fail, then let all six try it, and if they are unable to catch the fox, the Manager will have provided a great deal of amusement without the expense of paying for the stipulated prize. ...
I would bring my discoveries to Bill Moyer who shared my excitement and in time, I amassed a great deal of information that eventually found its way into four articles I wrote about Boston Symphony Orchestra brass players (click on the titles to read a PDF of these articles): A Pictorial ...
When Highlander was founded in 1932, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. Workers in all parts of the country were met with major resistance by employers when they tried to organize labor unions, especially in the South. Against that backdrop, Horton, West and Dombrow...
1929: 'WALL ST. IN PANIC AS STOCKS CRASH' The Great Depression started on Oct. 24, 1929, when panic selling led to a major stock market crash on what is now known as Black Thursday. By Monday, the market had dropped another 13% and suffered roughly the same losses the next day, ...
As to wealth, the steady progress of the Victorian period matched a steady increase in British happiness, as did the economic boom of the 1920s, which also lifted American spirits. Both countries’ spirits fell again in the Great Depression that followed the stockmarket crash of 1929. After ...
In the first few months of 2020, the sudden market-wide financial crisis was triggered in response to the emerging global health crisis (i.e., COVID-19), the consequences of which were more severe than those of the Great Depression in 1929–1933 and the global financial crisis in 2007/20...
As will be discussed below, this politicization of Prohibition did seem tied to arapid erosion of Prohibition support starting in 1929. In this context and againstthe background of the Great Depression, Americans by 1932 had come to expectthat something finally and definitely had to be done ...
The Great Depression Tankers Motor vessels Expansion Whaling On 14 October 1924, the reputable US newspaper,The Washington Post, featured an article on the Norwegian shipSagatind, where the crew allegedly had ended up in a free-for-all fight after a “wild orgy on contraband cargo.” The ship...
7.As to wealth, the steady progress of the Victorian period matched a steady increase in British happiness, as did the economic boom of the 1920s, which also lifted American spirits.Both countries’ spirits fell again in the Great Depression that followed the stock market crash of 1929. After...
While the history of sugar in Alberta is quite interesting, what attracted me to this booklet was the historical context surrounding the publication of this book: the Great Depression. The booklet mentions that Canadian Sugar Factories started business in 1925, which means they only had about five...