• India's imports fell by 47% and exports by 49% between 1929 and 1932 due to the Great Depression?

Facts on topics related to Great Depression in India

Great Depression

• Omaha, Nebraska's Peony Park became famous after the Lawrence Welk Band made it their official headquarters during the Great Depression?
• American comics writer and artist Don Rico started his creative career in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project during the Great Depression?
• Clement O. Miniger, founder of the Electric Auto-Lite Company, lost $5 million in 1931 due to the economic effects of the Great Depression?
• Museum Wharf in Boston has a 40' (12 m) tall milk bottle (pictured) that was built during the Great Depression and transported to the wharf by barge in the 1970s?
• Petrillo Music Shell was commissioned by Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak to help lift the spirits of the citizenry with free concerts following the Great Depression?
• St Mary's Cathedral (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia, is expected to be completed in 2009, almost 80 years after expansions were halted due to the Great Depression?
• during the Great Depression confidence man Oscar Hartzell defrauded thousands of people with false promises of access to the estate of Sir Francis Drake?
• during the Great Depression, attorney George C. Butte devised regulations for the conservation of Texas petroleum and natural gas?
• during the Great Depression, Wisconsin dairy farmers conducted a series of strike actions aimed at increasing the prices paid to milk producers?
• during the Great Depression, R. C. Nueske used a panel truck to market Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats, including bacon, sausages, hams and smoked turkeys, at little resorts across northern Wisconsin?

New Deal

• Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
• Eugenio Pacelli's (future Pope Pius XII) 1936 visit to the United States was planned, in part, to investigate and silence Catholic priest and New Deal opponent Charles Coughlin?
• out of 700 U.S. Forest Service buildings in Oregon and Washington built by New Deal programs, the Upper Sandy Guard Station Cabin is the only one crafted of stone and logs?
• the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a New Deal federal art program operated by the United States Department of the Treasury, commissioned more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures, most of which were placed in U.S. post offices?
• the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens?