Even as the stock market surged in the 1920s, with stock prices more than quadrupling in value, an economic depression was beginning to take hold on American farms, affecting more than thirty per cent of the US population.
The robust prosperity of American farms during the 1910s had been capped off by a surging demand for their products in war-torn Euro…
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