DCHP-3

Hungry Thirties

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the period 1930-39, when many people were unemployed and on relief; the Great Depression of the 1930's.

Quotations

1950
. . . they had resisted him stubbornly from the time of his in-coming, retreating now, now re-asserting their domination as in that bleak period of drought and depression called the Hungry Thirties.
1960
. . . it was there in the beginning and in the "Hungry 30's," and again in the student-veteran days of the immediate post-war period.
1966
"We [were] asking for . . . floor prices so that prices could not go back to the level of the hungry thirties."