a number 1 calendar year, marking the end of the Second World War and the election of a Labour government heralding the Welfare State. 1945 was also the year of the division of India, creating the democracies of India and Pakistan signalling...
After the stock market crash in 1929, protectionism protecting domestic industries against foreign competition usually by way of tariffs or subsidies efforts were on the rise. New legislation for tariffs narrowly passed in the Senate and was signed into law on June 17 by President Herbert Hoover de...
8. Gordon Gekko, Wall Street Before Geico came along and made an accented gecko its spokesperson, most people immediately thought of Gordon Gekko when that word came up. The slimey Wall Street player played by Michael Douglas showed us all that “greed is good,” but soon junior stockbroker ...
in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely...