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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courts will decide on the merits of claims and on dollar amounts. But beyond the courtroom looms the bigger question of how the U.S. proposes to accommodate itself to an ever noisier jet age. The first railroad trains scared the living daylights out of people; in the early 1800s, anti-railroad interests spread dark warnings among farmers that the trains made bulls impotent and dried up cows' udders. For the air age, the classic case was U.S. v. Causby (1946), in which the Supreme Court held that low-flying military aircraft had so badly disturbed barnyard life...
Roman Gods & Abe Lincoln. Originally, the city fathers had no grand design in mind.One of their first purchases was made in the early 1800s to decorate the city waterworks, and it consisted of wooden figures by William Rush, the famous carver of ships' figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President...
...family foofaraws." Do you know what foofaraw means? It is a word that was used by the fur traders and trappers in the Rockies in the early 1800s. It meant the trinkets these men gave the Indian girls and squaws for their favors. It might even mean fur jackets or a horse and saddle. Foofaraw was whatever it took to make...