The returns from the stock market seemed so assured that many companies started investing in stocks resulting in the price of the stocks going higher and higher. ... Across the country many people lost their savings, many companies failed, and faith was lost in the banks. ... When businesses began to fail the government created the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930 to help protect American companies. ... The inventory of the companies that sold these items started to rise and accumulate. ... The depression would last over a decade and would only end with the conclusion of World War II. ...

• Word Count: 2613
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Americans are just recovering from the affects of the great depression and the Second World War. ... He knowingly supplies faulty engine parts to the military planes against the advice of his company manager, Steve Deever. ... Of course, the war is a strong undercurrent in this play, and the effect that it has had on its characters is of great interest. When Keller defends his actions, he argues that everything and everyone has been dirtied by the war, asking his son "Who worked for nothin' in that war? ... It's dollars and cents, nickels and dimes, war and peace, it's nick...

• Word Count: 2731
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School