New Yorkers recall 1939 as the year of the great World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow. But that’s just more Eastern provincialism. Take a look at what was going on in San Francisco.
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Why do you need so much money to be rich nowadays? It’s a question that historians and readers of history have always found difficult to answer.
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