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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.
Pages in category "Television episodes set in the 1920s" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash: Aug 1982 Kuwait: Black Monday: 19 Oct 1987 USA: Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos ...
In a move to protect the broader economy from the over-inflated stock market, the Fed began raising interest rates in 1999, culminating in a market crash and a string of high-profile bankruptcies beginning the following year. Nov 2001– Dec 2007 73 +0.9% +2.8%: Another mild recession occurred in 2001, followed by moderate expansion.
On its first day in action, the Tokyo Stock Exchange termed it the The Nikkei 225 began its calculations on Sept. 7, 1950, with its "birthday" retroactively backdated to May 16, 1949.
This is a list of television shows considered by critics and audiences as Peak TV (it has also been called "the Second Golden Age of Television" and "Prestige TV"). Notable programs considered as Peak TV
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Each episode of the series is an hour long. It concerns newspaper reporters reporting crime and gangsters for the fictitious newspaper The New York Record during the 1920s, such as Scott Norris , Pat Garrison , Duke Williams (John Dehner), and copy-boy Chris Higby (Gary Vinson). Mike Road played police Lieutenant Joe Switoski.