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Hungry Thirties Hist. 
the period 1930-39, when many people were unemployed and on relief; the Great Depression of the 1930's.
See also: Dirty Thirties
- 1950 . . . they had resisted him stubbornly from the time of his in-coming, retreating now, now re-asserting their domination as in that bleak period of drought and depression called the Hungry Thirties.
- 1960 . . . it was there in the beginning and in the "Hungry 30's," and again in the student-veteran days of the immediate post-war period.
- 1966 "We [were] asking for . . . floor prices so that prices could not go back to the level of the hungry thirties."
- 1950 . . . they had resisted him stubbornly from the time of his in-coming, retreating now, now re-asserting their domination as in that bleak period of drought and depression called the Hungry Thirties.