Milk, for example, goes from cow to supermarket quickly, so the extra cost for trucking it may show up quickly, raising prices by a dime a gallon or so. And the price of tropical fruits and vegetables, which must be transported a long way, may tick higher. In contrast, th...
1942: Hawaii overprint note After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began to worry that the Japanese army might invade Hawaii and use it as a base to launch an attack on the mainland. Toprevent the Japanese from obtaining U.S. currencyin the case of an invasion, ...