The Great Depression: 11 Years of Life Lost to Suffering, Despair, and Poverty.

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The Great Depression: 11 Years of Life Lost to Suffering, Despair, and Poverty.

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"Brokers screamed out their orders to sell shares. They pushed each other out of the way, losing glasses and shoes in the chaos. One newspaper journalist wrote, "I heard it - and I can still hear it...the sound of running feet, the sound of fear."1

On Thursday October 24th almost at once stockbrokers were trying desperately to sell thousands and thousands of stocks. People were in panic as their "paper wealth" was quickly disappearing. Most at that moment felt a great wave of terror, but even then, nobody was prepared to face the next 11 years; nobody had the slightest idea of what the Great Depression was going to do to the country, to the world. The Great Depression began in September 1929 when unexpectedly, the stock market crashed and the prices began to rapidly fall. This crash made people feel alarmed and scared.2 People were blinded by panic with the prices falling and the banks closing so quickly that they had no time to realize and think about what could be done to resolve the problem. As years went by,