The Hilton Park Christmas tree, 75 feet tall and normally lit with 2,500 lights, was darkened Rationing was commonplace, reducing use of "luxuries" such as gas, soap, and makeup Store sold bestsellers ...
On Christmas Eve in 1943, the USS North Carolina sat anchored off a tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific, where crewmen tried to make merry in shoebox bunks stacked four high, half a globe away ...
On the run-up to Christmas in 1944, the Tribune published a recipe for fruit-candy gifts, above which was a list that, at this distance, seems encrypted. “Sugar stamps 30 through 34 [book 4], 5 lbs ...
When a wrapped bundle of vintage World War II Christmas cards turned up anonymously on archivist Robert Hitchings’ doorstep, Hitchings knew he’d have to share them with Wallace Room patrons at the ...
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