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1930's 2
Title: 1930's 2
Category: History
Details: Words: 390 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
1930's 2
What was the life like in the 1930¡¯s?
Speculation in the 1920s caused many people to buy stocks with loaned money and they used these stocks as collateral for buying more stocks. The stock market boom was very unsteady, because it was based on borrowed money and false optimism. When investors lost confidence, the stock market collapsed, taking them along with it. This eventually led to the Great Depression. Short signed government economic policies were …showed first 75 words of 390 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 390 total…when they saw their wives and children working to the point when they were too ashamed to get relief or help from friends. Women were blamed for taking the jobs of men and in 1931, and the Federation of Labor even endorsed it. Thus, women continued to work doing ¡°women work¡± such as nursing, and even if they were able to get an industry job, which seldom hired women, they usually were paid less than men.
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