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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (155353)	12/7/2007 9:42:12 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Thank you, and thanks for the recipe. I will try it. It looks yummy and easy..two things I love. Also found this interesting in your Dec.'s past.. June 17, 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act signed setting tariffs as high as 60%. Other countries retaliate with high tariffs crippling global trade - considered the true cause of the Great Depression. 1932 Democratic party adopts much of the Socialist Party platform and FDR is elected President. 1933 - Prohibition on alcohol ends, America hits bottom of Great Depression: GNP down 30% and exports down 68% from 1929 levels, unemployment peaks at 25%, 4,004 banks closed. By 1939 GNP recovers to 1929 levels, although unemployment remains around 15%. 1938 - TWA orders 33 pressurized cabin Boeing 307s, the age of air transportation begins. WWII starts in 1939 with America officially neutral but financially supporting Great Britain.