Indeed, on the morning of March 9, 1937, just hours before FDR’s chat, The New York Times ran two front-page stories about a new wave of “sit-down strikes” spearheaded by the United Auto Workers of America in Detroit and Flint, Michigan. The strikes, the paper reported, were “...
Progressive has an in-house insurance agency known as Progressive Advantage Agency. It sells policies from its own affiliated carrier, known as Progressive Home, and from a third-party company called Homesite. Regardless of which company you’re insured with, your Progressive renters insurance policy...
IL. The Twinkie was invented during the Depression by Chicagoan Jimmy Dewar for the Continental Baking Company in 1930. It was originally filled with banana cream, but bananas were scarce during WWII, so vanilla cream was substituted. And actually the treat became more popular. He came up with...