1. Boxing and the Great Depression
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Boxing and the Great Depression

2. Boxing, or Pugilism Amateur and Professional
Gloves regulation since 1867
15 rounds of 3 minutes each, with one minute break in between.
If either man falls he has to get up without help before a count of ten seconds.
If the end of 15 rounds is reached, judges will decide which man has a higher score. ( Landing punches with the knuckle side of your hand, above the belt)

3. Boxing, or Pugilism
A boxer loses points for hitting below the belt, for elbowing, for holding on to the ropes, for hugging, tripping, pushing, spitting, or hitting the back, neck, back of head.

4. Minimumweight (WBC/WBA/IBF) 7½ st47,627 kg105 lbs Mini Flyweight (WBO)
Light Flyweight st 10 lbs48,988 kg108 lbs Junior Flyweight (WBO)
Flyweight (All four) st50,802 kg112 lbs
Super Flyweight st 3 lbs52,163 kg115 lbs Junior Bantamweight (WBO)
Bantamweight st 6 lbs53,525 kg118 lbs
Super Bantamweight Junior Featherweight (WBO) 8 st 10 lbs55,225 kg122 lbs
Featherweight st57,153 kg126 lbs
Super Featherweight Junior Lightweight (WBO) 9 st 4 lbs58,967 kg130 lbs
Lightweight9 st lbs61,235 kg135 lbs
Super Lightweight Junior Welterweight (WBO) st63,503 kg140 lbs
Welterweight10½ st66,678 kg147 lbsS
Super Welterweight Junior Middleweight (WBO) st69,85 kg154 lbs
Middleweight st 6 lbs72,574 kg160 lbs
Super Middleweight st76,203 kg168 lbs
Light Heavyweight 12½ st79,378 kg175 lbs
Cruiserweight Junior Heavyweight (WBO) st 4 lbs90,892 kg200 lbs
Heavyweight > 14 st 4 lbs> 90,892 kg> 200 lbs

5. The Great Depression (1929-39)
The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world.
In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers.
By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its nadir, some 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed.
Though the relief and reform measures put into place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped lessen the worst effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the economy would not fully turn around until after 1939, when World War II kicked American industry into high gear.

6. Hoovervilles

7. Max Baer

8. Soup Kitchens A soup kitchen in Montreal, Canada in 1931.
Members of the United States Navyserve the homeless at Dorothy's Soup Kitchen, Salinas, California in 2009.