Business and Labor
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7.7KA.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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8.2KThe 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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7.0KThe 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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4.6KUnderwood Deviled Ham – Six Devilicious Facts About the Boston Pantry Staple
That little can of Underwood Deviled Ham on your grocer’s shelves represents a company that once fed the Union Army, built the...
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6.3KCamp Edwards, Cape Cod’s World War II City
One year before Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought the United States would never enter World War II. They might have thought otherwise...
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7.8KA Brief History of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
Don Featherstone made landscape history in 1957 when he designed the plastic pink flamingo for a Leominster, Mass., plastics company. Little did...
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