A call cost a nickel in the 1910s and 20s, he said, increased to a dime in about 1940 and eventually jumped to a quarter. The ...

Growing up in Paradise in the 1940s-50s was about as good as it gets for a young boy, roaming the high lakes area, hunting, ...

Wartime production had helped pull America's economy out of depression, and from the late 1940s on, young adults saw a remarkable rise in their spending power. Jobs were plentiful, wages were ...

Six months after the Hymers left their 1940s house - the inquest. Freshly returned to the 21st century, Kirstie muses, 'I've learned to do so many different things, like sewing and making steamed ...

Callum Grubb is only 19 but he lives his life as if it is the 1940s. Nearly everything he owns is from the time period, including his clothes. The teenager drives a black 1938 Austin Cambridge ...

Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940 and promised never to surrender. The government introduced rationing, which limited the amount of food everyone could buy. In September 1940 ...

Captain Marvel proved to be one of the most popular superhero comics of the Golden Age, regularly outselling the adventures of Superman during the 1940s. The sales of comic books increased ...

AT&T had been working on push button dialing since the early 1940s, first using mechanical systems that used vibrating reeds. World War II interrupted much of what Bell Labs had been working on ...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle sex abuse claims made by more than 1,3000 alleged victims dating back to the 1940s. "I am sorry for everyone one of ...