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2 days ago · Overview The unemployment rate in the U.S. during 1910–60, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–39) highlighted The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930 After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from 381 to 198 over the course of two months, optimism persisted for some time. The stock market rose in early 1930, with the Dow returning ...
2 days ago · Corporate headquarters are in Sandy Springs, Georgia. UPS traces its history to 1907, when the American Messenger Company was started in Seattle by 19-year-old James E. Casey and another teenager, Claude Ryan. Using a borrowed $100 as their initial capital, they set up shop in a cellar beneath Ryan’s uncle’s tavern.
4 days ago · COVID-19's toll on mental health. During the first 9 months of the pandemic, Americans reported rates of depression and anxiety six times higher than in 2019, Boston College researchers find. Confirming anecdotal evidence that the spread of the coronavirus has strained Americans’ mental health, Boston College researchers found reports of ...
2 days ago · Damage and death figures are for the U.S. only. Storm caused an additional 67 deaths and ~US$7 billion in damage across the Caribbean. 54 2018 Hurricane Florence: Tropical cyclone: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina: $24,230,000,000 Category 4 hurricane that caused major damage and 54 recorded fatalities in the US; 24 direct and 30 ...
4 days ago · Scientists are not yet able to predict earthquakes with that approximate correctness with which they forecast the weather of to-morrow--indeed, Professor David says they are still far ...
1 day ago · American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate states of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
3 days ago · It will be updated weekly, as new data are released. As of March 7, 2023, all data on COVID-19 cases and deaths are drawn from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Coronavirus (COVID-19 ...
