For as long as he could remember, since he was a kid, Dan Everyman had dreamed of becoming a pilot. Sadly, he was a bus driver. A good bus driver, if a frustrated one, but just a busman. It was such a pity that Dan could only have the briefest, slightest glimpses... almost nothing, really... in ...

Back in the early days of the Cold War, surviving a nuclear holocaust didn’t seem out of the question at all. As this January 1951 advertisement of the Mutual of Omaha—“The largest exclusive health and accident company in the world”—proclaims, “Whatever your attitude toward use of the atomic bomb you must live with the fact that ...

How did your Valentine’s Day turn out? As Philip Marlowe would say, “A kiss doesn’t seem to mean much nowadays.”...

The Foote Bros. Gear and Machine Corporation of Chicago, Illinois started business in the 1920s but really took off during World War II when the company moved into a larger factory to produce, among other things, gears for Pratt and Whitney engines used in military planes and in blimps that flew over US Naval convoys. As ...