Ray Curtis was born on Feb. 11, 1917, about two months before the United States entered World War I and a year before what ...

While the Great Depression began 80 years ago and ended with the advent of World War II, many Napans remember those days. A few recently shared their memories with the Register. See the essays by ...

And there's still that issue of trust the Great Depression and the post-World War II era marked a transition to a new monetary regime of fixed exchange rates (Bretton Woods, which survived until ...

Then in the 1930s, because of the Great Depression, housing starts literally drop 95 percent and more. During World War II obviously the nation has more important things on its mind than building ...

The Great Depression lasted through the 1930s in America, finally dissipating just before the country mobilized for World War II. With factories suddenly working beyond capacity to supply the war ...

We may have been in the throes of the most serious credit crisis since the Great Depression ... to safety following the outbreak of World War II. The Ted Spread, the difference between borrowing ...

I’m crying.” Stanley has lived through the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, World War II, the COVID-19 pandemic, and everything in between. His long life filled with all these experiences is ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess ... believing that their country should rebuild following the Great Depression, not fight a distant war. After the Japanese attack ...