Episode
294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week
In Pittsburgh, they had 40,000 people lining up over a mile, even though there was only 13,000 pairs available. You can imagine the chaos when those shops opened the doors.
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DuPont, the main company that made the tights or the stockings, they said they would make 360 million pairs as soon as the war ended within a year, and they could not live up to that at all.
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There was a mob in Chicago of 1,200 women who were outside a dress shop just bashing on the windows.
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Leonardo da Vinci made this fresco and it was in the grand meeting hall of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Then the Medicis came along and decided they wanted something else in that place — they commissioned Giorgio Vasari…
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