y had been growing continuously for six or seven years and this fact made the people think that the "Eldora do" had been reached. Investors began investing more and more in the optimism of becoming rich overnight.
But suddenly something that was inclement came around. The sales began to slow down. Consumer goods and property stopped selling as fast as it was doing just a few months ago. The more experienced and conventional businessmen foresaw that these were the signs of a slump. They realized, that they had overproduced! The financers, investors and bankers were to blame. They had involved a tremendous amount of American money in stocks and had risked the soundness of the American economy and the prosperity of the American society.
By nineteen hundred and twenty nine the
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