Building The Ultimate Toy: From Monopoly To Slinky
Fortunes are made by making children happy. But as any parent knows, that job is a lot trickier than it seems.
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Tag Archives: 1944
The Great Decision: Eisenhower Makes The Call
In 1944, Dwight Eisenhower launched history’s biggest military operation against Nazi Germany. He had planned exhaustively for every contigency, right down to the details, to throw the Germans off-balance and create a foothold in Europe. But all his planning was headed for failure because a new, impersonal, unexpected enemy had arrived. Now he had to ... More
The Post Discovers Country Music… in 1944
“Uncle Art Satherley seeks out country music in the bayous, canebrakes and hills, and brings it back twangin’ and sobbin’ to 25,000,000 addicts.”
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War, Work, and Women, Part II
According to some 1944 critics, you just couldn’t get good war workers anymore.
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War, Work, and Women
Life on the home front offered many American women rare work experience, and an unexpected education.
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Family Life in Wartime
A mother of three details the nearly overwhelming task of keeping her family well-fed and healthy on $2,000 a year.
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Life in the Shadow of a Distant War
Part one of a series on the hopes and disappointments of Americans enduring a lengthy war overseas.
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Addressing War in Wartime: Post Editorials from the 1940s
Two editorials, written in the 1940s, reflect some of America’s attitudes toward sacrifice and risk during the height of combat in Europe and Asia.
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