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    Before the Crash

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    On Wall Street in April 1929, everybody was making fortunes - shoeshine boys, cabbies, widows with a few bucks. Hundreds of dollars in stock...

    The Egg-Boiling Experiment

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    On Wednesday, December 2, 1942, Chicago’s weather turned frigid — ten degrees Fahrenheit and a howling wind. Underneath the unheated west stands of the...

    The Dragon Lady Conquers America, Part 2

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    On Thursday morning, February 18, 1943, crowds of curious onlookers huddled together near Capitol Hill. Every ten feet on the road leading to the...

    The Dragon Lady Conquers America, Part 1

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    Cornell Newton Shelton, known as C.N., stood freezing in the pre-dawn darkness of Chengtu, China. Shelton, an American bush pilot, preferred jockeying planes around...

    Broadcasting from the Bottom of the World

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    A collapsible organ, a piano, and a man who could do “double tremolos on the harmonica.” If you guessed a 1930s evening by the...

    Triple Teamed

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    World War Two on the home front produced some strange sights: teenagers driving old jalopies on their rims because of tire rationing, children pulling...

    Sellin’ Apples

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    “When we started this thing at the beginning of National Apple Week we had no idea it would expand in this way,” said Joseph...

    Santa’s List 1938

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    In the autumn of 1938, Kaufmann’s Department Store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, decided to survey their customers to see what gifts they really wanted for...

    The Third Term

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    On the evening of July 16, 1940, Thomas D. (for Democrat) Garry sat sweating in front of a microphone in the basement of Chicago...

    Mexican War Ends in U.S. Victory in 1848

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    Polk won the presidency in 1844 on a platform embracing the popular concept of "manifest destiny," that the U.S. had the duty to expand...
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