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The little-known story of Wall Street's effort to court individual investors during the Cold War in order to build a bulwark against communism.
Immediately after the frightening Great Crash of 1929, many Americans swore they would never-or never again-become involved in the stock market. Yet hordes of Americans eventually did come to embrace equity investing, to an extent actually far greater, than the level of popular involvement in the market during...
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When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and...