TAGS: physics, study, science, powerlifting, bench press. Powerlifters often tell me, âYou just donât understand physics! Donât you know that bench pressing straight up and down is the easiest because itâs the shortest possible motion?â Well, I have to agree that some of that is correct.
According to my father who lived through the  Great depression WWII was what brought the U.S. out of the great depression. Everyone had a job during the war. And when the war was over the factories that had been manufacturing war equipment converted over to making things like refrigerators and washers and dryers.
The stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. For the next ten years, the United States was mired in a deep economic depression. By 1933, unemployment had soared to 25 percent, up from 3.2 percent in 1929. Industrial production declined by 50 percent, international trade plunged 30 percent, and investment fell 98 percent.