All posts tagged "Depression"

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  The Rise and Fall of the Fore River Shipyard

  The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...

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  A Maine Shoemaker’s Potato Patch Plan Feeds the Poor

  During the terrible depression that followed the Panic of 1893, a transplanted Maine shoemaker came up with a widely ridiculed idea to...