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The world of early 1929 appeared to have recovered from the 1914 war, in the sense in which a man may be said to have recovered from the amputation of a limb. His life is no longer in imminent danger, he has adjusted himself to the loss, and he is going about his activities in the way in which he expects to continue for a long time to come.
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John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World (New York; 1960) p. 190.
Statistical information based on tables in B. R. Mitchell, European Historical Statistics 1750–1975 (1980)
US Department of Commerce, Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 (1975).
See W. S. and E. S. Woytinsky, World Commerce and Governments (1955) pp. 276–7.
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Douglas, R. (1986). A Kind of Stability. In: World Crisis and British Decline, 1929–56. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18194-0_1
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