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- Will Recession Change America?
- Today's economic meltdown will alter countless lives in countless ways for decades to come. As Jeff Greenfield reports, some think that change could be for the better.
- Videos 2009-03-27
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- Icon: Tracing the Path of the 1950s Shirtwaist Dress
- Today's period films typically show the 1950s housewife in the uniform of her profession: a shirtwaist dress. The shirtwaist itself encompasses the 1950s ideal of conformity and domesticity with a variety of media reinforcing these notions over time. In effect, it helped to define a women's place as "in the...
- Research articles 2009-03-01
- DISNEY TO MARKET 1950S CLASSICS IN '99.
- BURBANK, Cal.-The Walt Disney Collectors Society is coming out with two exclusive sculptures from its 1950s animated film classics, Lady and the Tramp and Alice in Wonderland, as part of its 1999 lineup of collectibles. BURBANK, Cal.-The Walt Disney Collectors Society is coming...
- Research articles 1999-01-04
- Domestic use of flour has dropped for two years running, something that has not happened since the 1950s, according to USDA.(Brief Article)
- * Domestic use of flour has dropped for two years running, something that has not happened since the 1950s, according to USDA. Producers and milling companies believe the Atkins diet is the culprit. The average person ate less than 139 pounds of flou * Domestic use...
- Research articles 2003-04-28
- Hilda Neatby's 1950s and My 1950s
- Hilda Neatby (1904-76), long-time professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, came into her own during the 1950s. A member of the Massey Commission, which reported in 1951, and author of So Little for the Mind (1953), a critique of progressive education, she acquired a high profile based on...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Soc: Magical night evokes memories of high-scoring 1950s
- 00-00-0000 Soc: Magical night evokes memories of high-scoring 1950s By Mike Collett LONDON, April 23 Reuters - Real Madrid, Manchester United, AC Milan and Ajax Amsterdam turned back the European soccer clock today, evoking memories of...
- Research articles 2003-04-24
- U.S. foreign policy and the Belgian Congo in the 1950s.
- US policy on the Belgian Congo during the 1950s was independent of, sensitive to and cooperative with both Brussels and nationalist Africans. Office of African Affairs Deputy Dir. Fred L. Hadsel submitted a special report in 1955, which stated that the US needed to adopt an independent policy so that...
- Research articles 1996-01-01
- For first time since 1950s, US to cease being net exporter of food
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States, which prides itself on being the breadbasket of the world, will see its agricultural exports drop 10 percent next year and, for the first time since the late 1950s, will cease to be a net exporter of food, according to a government projection. ...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
- Britain admits it knew 1950s nuclear ingredient was Israel-bound
- LONDON AFP — Britain has admitted that it knew that heavy water it sold in the 1950s, a key ingredient in making nuclear weapons, was bound for Israel, amid claims of a cover-up. An investigation by BBC television's "Newsnight" programme on Friday unearthed papers showing a deal was done...
- Research articles 2005-12-10
- The violent years: responses to juvenile crime in the 1950s *.
- Introduction In his 1997 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton called for "a full-scale assault on juvenile crime," requesting legislation for more prosecutors, tougher penalties, a "war on gangs," and stricter gun control. (1) This was not the first time Americans...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- GRAND DAME; ICONIC NEW YORK-BASED DESIGNER BETH LEVINE -- THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE INNOVATIVE HERBERT LEVINE LINE -- LOOKS BACK AT THE 1940S AND 1950S.(interview)(Interview)
- Byline: Barbara Schneider-Levy 1) What were the big footwear names of the 1940s and 1950s? Delman, I. Miller, [Salvatore] Ferragamo. Seymour Troy was the best. LaValle. Joyce on the West Coast. Julianelli was a designer of note. Vincent DeLiso of Palter DeLiso...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- Gucci steps back into primmer 1950s
- MILAN AFP — Gucci, which Texan designer Tom Ford put on the international fashion map with his steamy, overt sexuality, has taken a step back in time to revisit the more restrained 1950s for its collection for next summer. Frida Giannini, now in charge of the label, delved into...
- Research articles 2007-09-26
- CIA secretly gave money to LDP to weaken leftists in 1950s-60s: U.S
- WASHINGTON, July 18 Kyodo The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency secretly sent money to Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in the 1950s and 1960s to help stabilize the LDP-led government and prevent a leftist administration from emerging, a U.S. document showed Tuesday. ''Foreign Relations of the United...
- Research articles 2006-07-24
- CIA secretly gave money to LDP to weaken leftists in 1950s-60s: U.S
- WASHINGTON, July 18 Kyodo The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency secretly sent money to Japan's Liberal Democratic Party in the 1950s and 1960s to help stabilize the LDP-led government and prevent a leftist administration from emerging, a U.S. document showed Tuesday. ''Foreign Relations of the United...
- Research articles 2006-07-31
- 90% AIG Tax Rate: Back to the 1950s
- Mark J. Perry submits: Dave Prychitko: The latest move to tax the bonuses at [[AIG]] is an attempt to bring about, essentially, a new marginal tax rate of 90%. We haven't seen that since the 1950s and early 1960s in the U.S. (see chart above, data here). The difference...
- External links 2009-03-21
- Fender guitars: new Duo-Sonic reminiscent of the 1950s. (Fender Musical Instruments)
- Fender has gone back to the 1950s for some early rock-and-roll magic. Production began in August on the 1990s version of the Duo-Sonic guitar. "Many of today's guitar legends wailed their first hot locks on Fender's Duo-Sonic guitar," said Dan Smith, vice-president of marketing, electric guitars....
- Research articles 1993-11-01
- Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America.(Review) (book review)
- Alison J. Clarke. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999), x + 241 pp., $24.95 cloth. Among the consumer goods that achieved iconic status in the postwar era, Tupperware stands out as one of the few products...
- Research articles 2000-10-01
- Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America
- ALISON J. CLARKE, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999, 241 p. Finally, a book on Tupperware! For a company, product and sales strategy that have impinged on so many women's lives in North America, it is surprising how little analytical ink has...
- Research articles 2001-08-01
- Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. - Review - book review
- Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. By Alison J. Clarke (Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. x plus 241pp. $24.95). In 1956 New York's Museum of Modern Art featured Tupperware products in an exhibition of modern design. Critics praised the household containers for their purity of...
- Research articles 2000-09-22
- Boulder, Colo., Uncle, Nephew Duo Develop 1950s-Styled Refrigerator.
- By Robert Barba, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 20--You might say these guys were destined to start a refrigerator business. One helped found a clothing company named Fresh Produce. The other, well, his name is Orion Creamer. ...
- Research articles 2004-02-20
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