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The 1930sSummary: In the years preceding 1929, the stock market rose, seemingly without limits, to usher a “New Era” of prosperity—one where it was widely believed that in America, everyone could become rich. Yet in reality, only the rich were becoming richer. As told by the descendants of the financial “folk heroes” of the economic boom of early 1920s, The Crash of 1929, from the PBS American Experience...
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Summary: In 1931, the rains stopped. Soon, blinding black dirt swept across the southern plains of America. Acres of crops withered and died as over-plowing created conditions for disaster: tiny dust particles invading food, water, and the lungs of millions of animals and people alike. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California—typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's “The Grapes...
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Summary: The engineering problems were stupendous; the solutions ingenious. And as stated by President Herbert Hoover himself, it was “the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted by the hand of man.” For two years, five thousand workers settled in the Nevada dessert to pour concrete day and night until the Hoover Dam was complete - remarkably under budget and ahead of schedule. As...
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Summary: The crash of 1929 left a country—once reeling with optimism—with 25% of its citizens unemployed and at a near complete loss of hope. But in March, 1933, within weeks of his election, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped in with a solution: the Civilian Conservation Corps. As told by four veterans of this unique organization, The Civilian Conservation Corps, from the PBS American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009