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Buddy, can you spare a dime? Echoes of '30s in viral crisis?

by AP Business Writer
| March 24, 2020 12:04 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The imagery floats in sepia-colored photographs, faintly recalled images of bedraggled people lined up for bread or soup. Shacks in Appalachian hollows. Ruined investors taking their lives in the face of stock market crashes. Desperation etched on the faces of a generation that would soon face a world war.

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