Business and Labor
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4.0KIda Tarbell, Investigative Journalist, Takes Down John D. Rockefeller
In the 1930s, Ida Tarbell sat down at her mahogany desk in the sunny library of her Easton, Conn., farmhouse. She wrote...
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3.6KThe Portuguese Farmers Who Made Falmouth Strawberries Famous
In 1892, Manuel Viera Martins retired from whaling and bought a cottage in the Waquoit section of Falmouth, Mass. He and his...
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5.4KCrazy Henry Baldwin, the Mentally Ill Supreme Court Justice
In the history of the United States, only 120 people have served on the Supreme Court. Some suffered from mental illness. Henry...
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10.0KA.C. Gilbert, The Man Who Saved Christmas (and Invented the Erector Set)
In 1918, America was at war. The country needed to devote all of its industrial might to victory in Europe. A war...
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9.6KThe Great Cranberry Scare of 1959 Wreaks Havoc at Thanksgiving
Seventeen days before Thanksgiving in 1959, a government bureaucrat set off the great cranberry scare with a warning: The iconic holiday fruit...
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8.6KThe Wellfleet Oyster: A Brief History of the Precious Mollusk
Diamond Jim Brady once spat out an oyster served him at New York’s Delmonico’s restaurant. “That’s not a Wellfleet oyster!” exclaimed the...
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