In 1943, the July issue of "Transportation Magazine" had an article entitled "1943 Guide to Hiring Women."

When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse.

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

AMAZING FACTS