It wasn't until World War II that the federal income tax affected a large percentage of the population.
Puerto Ricans have been migrating to the United States since the 1800s, but it wasn't until World War II that this population movement peaked.
This has left individuals to fend for themselves in a way they haven't had to since before World War II.
But that short-lived experiment didn't work, and during World War II the dollar's tie to gold was reaffirmed by the Bretton Woods international monetary system.
His father was drafted into the army just after Mori was born, in 1937, and didn't come home until after World War II had ended.
The written word, however, only emerged about 5, 000 years ago, and until World War II over half the world's population couldn't read or write.
That the worst expenses scandals occurred in safe seats, many of which hadn't changed party since the Second World War?
The 100-year-old motorcycle maker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, didn't really take off until disengaged World War II veterans came home and took to the road on the powerful macho bikes.
Isn't it also true that after World War I, the British perceived nationalist feelings in the area (Egypt and Sudan), so drew up a project to split the country by annexing the predominantly Black South to Uganda while keeping the northern "condominium" Arab and Muslim?
The T-shirts are based on the World War II wartime propaganda slogan "keep calm and carry on".
The surge in Two-up's popularity during World War I didn't spark a change.
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The truth is the company that popularized the modern image of Santa Claus and whose trademark hoop skirt bottle spread across the globe in the hands of victorious U.S. soldiers during World War II hasn't come up with a memorable campaign or a knock-your-taste-buds-silly new flavor in years.
Living in a converted World War II bunker isn't for everyone.
After all, the World War II veteran didn't recall losing a dog tag after landing in Normandy with the 90th Infantry division on D-Day and fighting across Nazi-occupied France.
And I would require some accountability that I don't think that we have had, and do a thorough review of what was necessary and how we can make the transition that we haven't yet made from a Cold War apparatus to the world we live in today.
They're from the generation after World War II and they don't understand why more people didn't defy the Nazis.
It was a time when we weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.
Idaho sheep ranchers couldn't figure out why, in the decade after World War II, a random batch of their lambs were being born with strange birth defects.
He told BBC Radio Wales how Lloyd George was prime minister during World War I, but "wasn't a very successful prime minister afterwards".
From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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And a war with the world's largest oil producers probably won't lower the price of crude.
As for the future, Clark doesn't have to follow in the footsteps of another famous general -- World War II's Gen.
Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it is reasonable for us to begin this effort....Isn't it worth every investment necessary to free the world from the threat of nuclear war?
Beer naturally contains a shot of B vitamins. (Not coincidentally, vegans get excited about brewer's yeast.) This entrepreneur isn't the first to see nutrition as a selling point for booze: During World War II Anheuser-Busch advertised Budweiser as a natural source of B vitamins.
Beer naturally contains a shot of B vitamins. (Not coincidentally, vegans get excited about brewer's yeast.) This entrepreneur isn't the first to see nutrition as a selling point for booze: During World War II Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ) advertised Budweiser as a natural source of B vitamins.
"During World War II, women needed to work, because there weren't enough men to work in the factories, " says Correll.
When he personally helped the Allies create institutions like the World Bank, at the end of World War II, he was trying to make sure we wouldn't get into such a mess again.
Peterman sells its slip-on Oneida Moccasins, which date back to World War I when workers on dirigibles wore them so that they wouldn't puncture the balloons.
I'm never in favor of war, but if somebody hadn't done something about Hitler, why, this whole world would be different than it is right now.
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