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Nature 406, 125-126 (13 July 2000) | doi:10.1038/35018147

Crushed by the Frankenstein monster

Howard P. Segal1

On 1 February 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, the New York Times published a front-page interview with car-maker Henry Ford. As unprecedented numbers of Americans endured economic catastrophe, Ford proclaimed that these were "not bad times but good ones", and that the nation was "on the threshold of an inconceivably bright future".