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William Benton And The Great Depression

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Everyone in the stories about the great depression showed that Americans had went through different experiences. William Benton, Clifford Burke and Ben Issacs however had totally different experiences about the great depression crisis. William Benton was an example of the people who benefited through success in the great depression. Benton saw the need of the people and took full advantage of the situation. According to Benton ‘there is a potential to benefit, in all crises’. Benton was clever to seize the opportunities brought by the great depression and benefit from them, that he earned close to half a million dollars at that time. Clifford Burke’s life on the other hand, never changed during the depression, they had been poor even when the

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