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 era became known as the legendary Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl brought ecological, economical and human misery to America during a time when it was already suffering under the Great Depression. While the economic decline caused by the Great Depression played a role, it was harÂ­dly the only guilty party. What circumstances conspired to cause the Dust Bowl? Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to making the Dust Bowl. Keep Reading Below Â­The seeds of the Dust Bowl may have been sowed during the early 1920s.