A United Nations mission that visited Iraq on March 10-17, 1991 after the Gulf War, made this report, saying:
“the recent conflict has wrought near-apocalyptic results upon the infrastructure of what had been until January 1991 a rather highly urbanized and mechanized society.”
Ten McDonald’s hamburgers are made per pound of beef, apportioned by a computer formula.
In alphabetical order, the executive departments are: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.
Sixth Avenue was renamed Avenue of the Americas on October 2, 1945, by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947). He signed a bill officially changing the name to honor all the countries of the two continents.
The first American Express Travelers’ Cheque was issued in 1891. Then as now, Travelers’ Cheques were designed to allow travelers to carry funds safely. American Express levied a surcharge on buyers of the cheques and paid banks a commission for each sale.
The Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, was America’s first national monument.
The first labor strike in the United States took place in 1776, in New York, when members of the Journeymen Printers Union struck against their local shops.