in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (Kate Winslett). Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler’s private ...
but then suddenly stopped growing in early 1937 and even fell later in the year. The monetary shock, however, was not the Federal Reserve’s decision to increase reserve requirements, but the often overlooked
Engineers built the levee system with the goal of creating a system that could stand up to the worst storm possible in 200 years. Unfortunately, the study greatly miscalculated how powerful potential storms could be. Riskier design: New Orleans' levees were built to sustain the city's growth,...
Even as the Great Depression was bearing down on the American car-buying public, Marmon Motor Car Co. debuted theMarmon Sixteen, a vehicle that was powerful, fast, and elegant. Marmon, which had developed a reputation for speed that started with its victory in 1911 at the first Indi...
with Humphrey Bogart as its star. Once the Nazis came to power, Traven’s radical writings were deemed so inimical that his entire oeuvre was tossed onto bonfires. Still, his novels were widely read by members of youth groups like the d.j.1.11.Th...