The Great Financial Panic of 1873 - Closing ... That same year, the depression set off railroad strikes. Workers all over the country, in response to wage cuts and poor working conditions, struck ...

Your new book is called, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary ... tried to sound the alarm on railroad safety. Not long after, he was fired.

Following the economic panic of 1873, the United States experienced a period known as the Long Depression ... It was known as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Pittsburgh was among the hardest ...

We all know that the Great Depression began in October 1929 ... and the yard office of the Union Belt of Detroit Railroad. The Union Belt was an interesting terminal railroad owned jointly ...

There are also fears that the tariffs could trigger an economic downturn reminiscent of the Great Depression nearly a century ago. The Great Depression was a catastrophic economic downturn that ...

The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International ...