Show PARALLELISM HISTORY Is said to repeat itself Maybe it does and maybe it Be that as it may it is of passing interest to n note te that roughly about 60 years ago these things I happened 1861 1365 The 1861 The Civil war 1866 Depression 1866 Depression resulting from the effort to readjust industry to peacetime demands 1873 1867 1873 1867 Booming times featuring speculation mec mechanical invention and widespread widespread wide wide- spread expansion 1873 stock 1873 Stock market marlet crash 1877 1873 A long drawn out depression By the simple process of adding about 60 years to the foregoing figures let us see what we have World war 1918 1914 depression 1921 boom 1929 1923 stock market crash 1929 1920 depression 1929 1029 Here is a chance for speculation as to cause and effect It may lead nowhere but it will prove interesting Also it may answer some of the references to overproduction mechanization etc which are alluded to as causes of the business conditions prevailing during the past two years ears |