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1939: rays and wrath

What was America really like in 1939? Well the experts behind the New York World’s Fair of 1939 with its theme of “the world of tomorrow” thought they knew, and could also predict the future. America was on the threshold … Continue reading

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back to stovall’s plantation

On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930′s which coincided … Continue reading

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