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n. a time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment [syn: Depression, the Depression]
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The Great Depression is the fifth album from post-hardcore band Blindside. It is their first album for DRT Entertainment. The album was largely influenced by a trip to Africa that their lead singer, Christian, had undertaken. He was very unsettled by his experience and the things he saw influenced the album immensely. The song "Yemkela" was written about a young African boy he met on his trip. The boy had HIV and had less than two months to live. However, in a recent interview, Christian Lindskog revealed that on a recent tour in South Africa, he had seen Yemkela (who Christian expected would be dead) at a show in Cape Town. To Christian's surprise, he was doing well and watched Blindside perform his song and sang along. This Performance was released on a documentary packaged with Blindside's 2011 album " With Shivering Hearts We Wait."
The Great Depression was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in the late 1920s and lasting through most of the 1930s.
The Great Depression may also refer to:
- The Long Depression, an 1873–1896 economic recession sometimes known as the Great Depression
The Great Depression is a book written by Canadian author Pierre Berton.
The period of time between the stock market crash of 1929 and the outbreak of war in 1939 had a terrible impact on the lives of all Canadians. The book, The Great Depression is a scalding indictment of the political leaders of the time, the police, the law and of big business. While successive governments at the Federal, Provincial and Municipal level squabbled over how to deal with the huge numbers of unemployed workers and who would pay for government works programs or “the dole”, tens of thousands of formerly middle class Canadians suffered in abject poverty while drought seared the western prairies and dust clouds blackened the sky. The entire decade became known in Canadian historical parlance as "the dirty thirties." At the nadir of the depression, half the wage earners nationwide were on some form of relief.
The book The Great Depression chronicles, through personal account and historical records, the events of the decade and the impact these events had on Canada and Canadian culture.
The Great Depression is an album by the folk punk band Defiance, Ohio. Despite being produced and distributed for profit by No Idea Records, the album is still available for download in its entirety through the band's website. The cigarette smoking man on the cover is Steven Stothard.
The Great Depression is the fourth studio album by American rapper DMX. The album was released October 23, 2001, by Ruff Ryders Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings. It was DMX's fourth consecutive album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. 440,000 copies were sold within the first week of the album's release, and it was certified Platinum in December of that year. The album demonstrated his continually strong allegiance with the Ruff Ryders with singles such as " Who We Be" and " We Right Here".
The Great Depression is the second album of the British band Trigger the Bloodshed. It was released on 14 April 2009. The album was self-produced by the band and mixed by Karl Groom. A music video was released for the title track.
The Great Depression is the 2010 studio album from Canadian musical duo Common Grackle, released on Fake Four Inc. It features guest appearances from Kool Keith and Ceschi.
Usage examples of "the great depression".
You will find them along the highways, in the all-night diners, and in the old brass-rail bars that still serve 10-cent beer -- a motley, varied, and always talkative legion of men who fit no pattern except that they all seem like holdovers from the days of the Great Depression.
Suddenly, the Great Depression ended in a headlong rush of young men into the armed forces and of others, men as well as women, into the nation's factories.
They were both so lean as to appear half starved, skinny but sprightly, their skin darkened and creased by long exposure to the elements, so that a casual observer might have thought them a couple of old hoboes, and there were enough of that type on the roads and byways in these days of the great Depression.
He could even remember back to where all the bumming had started, the Big One, the Great Depression.
Directly across the road was the Walasi-Yi Inn, a splendid stone building constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (a kind of army of the unemployed) during the Great Depression and now a combination hiking outfitters, grocery, bookshop, and youth hostel.
In 1938, the most dangerous problem he perceived was the Great Depression, and he looked to FDR and Upton Sinclair for results.
Would the play be less poignant if you didn't know about the civil war in Spain, the massive poverty of the Great Depression, and the growth of Nazism?
The Rocky Mountain Prison for the Criminally Insane had been constructed in the Great Depression, under the auspices of the Work Projects Administration, and it looked as solid and formidable as the Rockies themselves.
Raised in the Great Depression, Gordon was more concerned about putting money away for his retirement than he was with supporting his children.
Slowly the great depression filled, and the forest and plants, the herbs and mosses, and the wondrous mushrooms, all were drowned.
Ragged clouds drifted about the edge of the great depression in the earth.