... came to a screeching halt on one fateful Tuesday. A normal Tuesday by any accounts, yet it would turn out to be one of the most infamous Tuesdays known to history. This, of course, was Black Tuesday. On October 29, 1929 the United States stock market crashed and rocked the country's economy so violently that it didn't start to recover until 1933. This shock reverberated throughout ... the world. When all was said and done, it is safe to say that almost no one emerged unscathed. It was a time in history ... at that. One cannot expect the country to come out of the deepest financial melt...

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