Even before the United States entered World War II, the disruption of imports and defense demands caused shortages of civilian goods. A silk shortage caused by the economic break with Japan and the ...

Every Wednesday morning in Wilmington (Del.), home town of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., a score-odd lingerie shops and department stores put on sale new shipments of nylon stockings. As soon as the ...

WILLIAM LEE, a fiery young English curate with radical leanings, went one day, some three hundred and fifty years ago, to call upon Cecily Yorke, soon to be his bride. Like most men and all radicals, ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "In an effort to get their rightful due as producers, the young women and men who worked in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working class ...

A dozen fires were raging in the Deer Park area north of Spokane and the area fire warden laid the blame directly on the Great Northern Railway. “These blazes were set by passing locomotives, which ...