Great Depression Press Articles

West Briton, The; Truro (UK) - Cornish ingenuity can change the world

July 29, 2010 --

IN THE the early 1960s, on Goonhilly Downs, close by a menhir which, despite ploughing and the scouring for building stone down the centuries...

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Daily Mirror, The; London (UK) - Is Arnotts in the depts of despair?

July 29, 2010 --

THE takeover of one of the country's top department stores by Anglo Irish Bank has sent shockwaves through the retail sector.

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Evening Standard; London (UK) - Pound five-month high against dollar

July 29, 2010 --

STERLING hit a five-month high against the US dollar today as traders bet on the UK's economic recovery. The pound rose 0.58 cents to $1.5656...

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Bismarck Tribune - Madeleine Tellmann

July 28, 2010 --

GRAND FORKS - Madeleine Frances Tellmann, 92, Grand Forks, passed away of natural causes on July 24, 2010, at Altru Hospital, Grand Forks....

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Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) - Working in the great outdoors may be perfect for unemployed

July 28, 2010 --

WITH Scotland struggling to dig itself out of the depression, a scheme hailing from 1930s' America could get young people working.

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Evening Standard; London (UK) - King warns it's too soon to talk about UK recovery

July 28, 2010 --

BANK of England governor Mervyn King today played down hopes of a fast economic recovery and suggested interest rates will stay at record...

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Gloucestershire Echo, The - Author discharged himself from hospital, inquest told

July 27, 2010 --

A PUBLISHED author who took an overdose was able to discharge himself from hospital only to leap to his death hours later, an inquest...

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Western Daily Press - Depressed author was allowed to leave hospital

July 27, 2010 --

The mother of a suicidal author demanded to know why nurses helped her son take out vital drips and escorted him out of the hospital in his...

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Gloucestershire Echo, The - Depressed author leapt to his death

July 27, 2010 --

A PUBLISHED author who took an overdose was able to discharge himself from hospital only to leap to his death hours later, an inquest...

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Waikato Times - Blockade runner

July 27, 2010 --

A world distracted by the Great Depression turned its back on the Jewish people being persecuted by the Nazis.

Jews have learnt...

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"The trick in life is learning how to deal with it."

by Helen Mirren

This Day In History

Trinidad: island in the Caribbean was discovered by Christopher Columbus (1498)