Stalin asks for Carver's help with his agriculture, requesting he bring twenty-five other black farming experts (1930). Carver tells a former student, who goes. A crashed U.S. economy wipes out Carver's savings (1931-1933)
In January 1933, the Macon County Bank—the third of three in which he had funds that failed—left him, he said, “flat as a pancake.” His account had been the largest in the bank. The white bank director, knowing this last failure had wiped out Carver’s savings, came to break the news. He looked haggard when he entered Carver’s lab. When he came out, a teacher who knew the reason for his visit asked how the Professor was taking the blow. “I never saw anything like it,” he told him. “He tried to make me feel better!” Newsweek magazine later reported Carver smiling when the news was brought to him and saying, “I guess someone found a use for it. I wasn’t using it myself. I suppose that’s what happens when you hoard.”
