Those bleak years devastated the American rail industry, as revenue fell by 50 percent from 1928 to 1933, and a third of the country’s railroads went into bankruptcy.
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Patrick Sauer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Dec. 2024
Someone won a $68 million jackpot in New York on Christmas Eve in 2002, but that prize went unclaimed.
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