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Crowds flock to Wall Street in New York after news of the stock market collapse. Right, the front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on 'Black Thursday', the first day of the crash. The stock market had been fuelled by a speculative boom throughout the 'Roaring Twenties', but it lost a quarter of its value over the course of just six days in late October 1929

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