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Originally Posted by rackops
The current book I'm working through is The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972, by William Manchester. Reading the part about the Great Depression and how impacts were felt all the way up through WW2 makes me surprised that any of our cars made it. It makes me all the more appreciative of what my cars experienced during their lives.
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The DOW, which was the leading index of the day did not recover until 1951. So if a person were nearing their retirement years when the market crashed in
(Oct) 1929 they never recovered financially before they died.
I could tell another interesting fact that the late Louis Ruekiser, JR researched, but I don't want to start some boring info.