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Congressional Record - US Government Publishing Office  Jun 23, 1998 ... Mr. Speaker, what Mr. Wu may not ..... cost of providing health care for them, .... Also Congress Daily reports in the ... helping to pass landmark legislation ..... permission to address the House for 1 minute. ... Pastor Mike opened the United States ...... the gentlewoman from New York (MS. ...... 2, 1931 (46 Stat.
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Empire State Building dedicated - May 01, 1931 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Empire State Building dedicated on May 01, 1931. ... The Depression-era construction employed as many as 3,400 workers on any single ... imbued New York City with a deep sense of pride, desperately needed in the depths .... warships wrecked or captured at the cost of only six Americans wounded.
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A History of Preserving the Desert - National Park Service  Dec 7, 1989 ... 1. Joshua Tree National Park: A History of Preserving the Desert. Prepared ..... mountains has filled the basins of Joshua Tree to great depths. ...... monument during the Great Depression. ..... forest reserve near La Paz, Baja California in May 1931. ..... NPS Chief Landscape Architect Thomas Vint reported a...
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Empire State Building - Wikipedia  The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York ... Cost, $40,948,900 ... The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks ... The building was officially opened on May 1, 1931 in dramatic fashion, when United States President...
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empire state building - Search-ID.com  The Empire State Builing is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the ... This NYC landmark that opened May 1, 1931, in the depths of the Depression, cost a reported $41,000,000; If you're not up to climbing this NYC building's...
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The Stock Market: CQR  May 2, 1997 ... Now the markets are waiting to see whether the Fed will raise interest rates again. ... with 32 percent in 1989 and only 1-1/2 percent when the market crashed in 1929. ... Even though the Dow has fallen from its record peak of 7,085 on March 11, ..... 22 On Oct. 19, 1987 - Black Monday - the New York Stock...
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Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia  The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the United States economy first went into ... Three years into the depression, Herbert Hoover lost the 1932 presidential .... The Great Depression began in the United States of America and quickly ... Many businesses closed, as corporate profits of C$396 million in 1929...
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Pay Articles from May 1929 Part 4 - Site Map - The New York Times  ZEPPELIN TO STAY AT CUERS FOR TEN DAYS FOR REPAIRS; WILL FLY HERE .... 1; Former's New Broad Street Building Will House CombinedBanks' . .... PARIS UNIVERSITY; Bequest of Former Wife of Wealthy Radiator Man Set at More Than . ..... RECORD SALES IN APRIL BY GENERAL MOTORS; Sloan Announces...
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Steeplechase Park Highlights : NYC Parks  The opening of George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park in 1897 marked the beginning of ... them and charged a fee of twenty-five cents for twenty-five attractions. ... In tribute to the park's past, the Parachute Jump, which was granted historical...
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jeopardy/1762_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THAT'S GONNA COST YOU | Between 1853 & 1856, commissioners purchased the NYC site for what became this 843-acre location | Central Park. right: Chuck.
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United States | The Economist  But Mr Obama struggles in a slugfest: strike back too hard, and he loses his .... Like Green-Wood, Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx is both historical and active: ... Its most striking feature are the 1,300 mausoleumssome the size of small ... Dandy and You're a Grand Old Flag, is in a mausoleum also adorned with...
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Reader Study: Getting Rich in Manhattan on $65k/year  Apr 6, 2014 ... I'm moving on after these comments to the next great post. ... I've had four Manhattan rent controlled apartments and never paid ..... expensive food, $50 brunches, and dropping lots of money at bars. ..... Emily April 6, 2014, 12:28 pm .... on the sidewalk on weekend mornings I've found many useful things...
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Panic of 1893: Seattle's First Great Depression - HistoryLink.org  Nov 24, 1999 ... Seattle did not fully recover until 1898, after the Klondike Gold Rush had ... Ambitious men instead swarmed into towns such as Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland, ... They told of men who turned to suicide because they'd been scratched ... The Panic of 1893 thundered west from Wall Street, first clobbering San...
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jeopardy/3061_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Wrong: Value: $100. Number: 1. STREETS | Financiers literally made a big impact on this street in October 1929 | Wall Street. right: Bruce. Wrong: Value: $100.
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Dorothea Lange - Depression Era Photographer - Legends of America  A documentary photographer and photojournalist, Lange is best known for her Depression-era work ... Born on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, she was originally named Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn at birth. .... Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated May, 2015. Also See: Dust Bowl Days or the "Dirty Thirties".
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Ellis Island History -A Brief Look. From 1892 to 1954, over twelve ...  as the New York State immigration station from 1855 to 1890 and ... restrictive religious laws and deteriorating economic conditions in Europe began to fuel the ... The new structure on Ellis Island, opened on January 1, 1892; Annie ... First and second class passengers who arrived in New York Harbor were not required to.
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Jeopary Questions page 811 - CRACK OPEN A U.S. HISTORY ...  THE GREAT DEPRESSION: Things named for him during the Depression include a big dam & a type of miserable shantytown  ADD A LETTER: Turn pizza into...
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The masonry for the structure was completed on May 1, 1931 ...  On that date, President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C. to ... New York Architecture Images- Empire State Building .... The lobby of the Empire State Building on opening day, 1 May 1931 ...... Washington Square Arch, Fifth Avenue, and the Empire State Building by Rbudhu ... Those blue collar men tho.
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Great Depression facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  In the Great Depression, real per capita GDP was still below its 1929 level a ... Yet these figures may underestimate the true hardship of the times: those who ... Unemployment and inflation were both very low throughout this period as well. .... Recall that through the 1930s it was commonly thought that one cause of the...
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1893-1899 - York Daily Record  Nov 30, 2015 ... The $250, 000 blaze reportedly started when a guest carelessly ... Construction begins on a new St. Patrick's Church in York, next to the ... A proposed steeple to stand 135 feet covered with burnished ... A windstorm, called a hurricane in the press, blows down the mile-long bridge over the Susquehanna...
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'Flintstones' tourist attraction on market for $2 million - NY Daily News  Jun 4, 2015 ... It's a town right out of the Stone Age, and it can be yours for some ... park modeled after the Flinstones' home town, is up for sale for $2 million.