Tomato soup cake first appeared in cookbooks in the early 1920s, though according to Atlas Obscura, no one knows who thought ...

Money in circulation mirrors production. Reduced money in circulation didn’t cause the 1930s, rather it was an effect of ...

(The soup kitchens were shut down a couple of years later, replaced by city-funded meal tickets to local restaurants.) The U.S. Census reported that, by April, Milwaukee's unemployed totaled 15,916.

A soup kitchen during the Great Depression in 1930. Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images The crisis resulted in skyrocketing rates of unemployment, hunger, and desperation.

During the Great Depression, 50 percent of Chicago's workforce was out of a job. Al Capone, the city's bloodthirstiest gangster, stepped in feed the hungry.

Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, launched a Great Depression that rippled across the globe and lasted for more than a decade. It set in motion the ...

The Great Depression in North Dakota was a time of contradiction, a time of hunger marches and riots. And it was American laborers that in part dragged the nation from an abyss.

Well, we’ve been doing it for years by just printing more money. Now, one of the interesting revelations of Creature From Jekyll Island is the fact that the Great Depression was pretty well ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic disaster of the 20th century, ... Worldwide, millions lost their jobs. Bread lines, soup kitchens, and homelessness became widespread.