Great Depression

Speech parts

1. Great Depression - Noun

2. Great Depression - Proper noun

Meaning

a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

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Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. Lawrence Klein

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. James Tobin

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Chuck Palahniuk

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation. Benjamin Graham

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. John Kenneth Galbraith

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