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.
Quick Answer. Thanks to the efforts of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the New Deal included economic relief for women in the form of work opportunities, unemployment compensation and the ability to form unions. Prior to the First Lady's involvement, post-Great Depression economic relief measures focused only on men as breadwinners.