Íshúsfélag Ísfirðinga
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Íshúsfélag Ísfirðinga was an Icelandic company that produced frozen fish for export. It was established on 7 January 1912 to store frozen bait, and in the 1930s moved into freezing fish. In 1970 Gunnv
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Great Depression
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The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and in
Unemployed people lined up outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, February 1931
A Lone Driller's Water Break drinking from a battered pan during the Texas oil boom in Kilgore, Texas, 1939
Crowd gathering at the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street after the 1929 crash
Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act passed the House of Representatives