Apples Became a Weapon Against the Great Depression(history.com) |
Apples Became a Weapon Against the Great Depression(history.com) |
As for the unemployment part, national averages never reached 50% but some local communities like industrial cities saw much higher unemployment rates. For example Cleveland hit around 50% and Toledo (Ohio) reached as high as 80% during the early 1930s.
So the “up to 50%” talks about the extreme hardship in certain regions rather than the U.S. as a whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United...