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Panorama of the beef industry in 1900 by a Chicago-based photographer 1905 International Live Stock Exposition catalogue Hog hoist, circa 1909. The area and scale of the stockyards, along with technological advancements in rail transport and refrigeration, allowed for the creation of some of America's first truly global companies led by entrepreneurs such as Gustavus Franklin Swift and Philip ...
1950 Chicago streetcar crash: a collision and explosion kills 34. [4] June 1 – Mauna Loa in Hawaii starts erupting. June 5 – Sweatt v. Painter decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, challenging the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation in education.
The novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, published in 1961, is concerned with mid-1950s life and culture. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, though not published until 1963, features a woman's struggle living in 1950s American culture. Agatha Christie was also at a stage where she published at an average rate of one book every year.
North America portal; History portal; 1950s portal; This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories. ... 1950s in Chicago (1 C, 16 P)
"I really honed in on the 1950s because of my grandparents," Fay explained to AOL Lifestyle. "They got married in 1955 and her [grandmother's] stories...just made it sound like the best time ever."
As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (Harvard University Press, 1996) 328 pp. Miller, Douglas T. and Marion Nowak. The fifties: the way we really were (1977) Stoner, John C., and Alice L. George. Social History of the United States: The 1950s (2008) Wills, Charles. America in the 1950s (Decades of American History) (2005)
Keller, Texas, during the 1920s-1950s. Greater Fort Worth International Airport’s 1953 grand opening. Fort Worth Stock Show, 1930s to 1950s. Creepy clowns in Fort Worth. Queen Elizabeth visits ...