The 1940s
$90 down & $58 a month for 25 years bought one of these in Levittown
a house
1 of 2 cabinet members Ford inherited from Nixon & kept for his entire administration
Willian Simon or Henry Kissinger
What Italians call Piazza San Pietro, Americans call this, with the Pope's blessing
St. Peter's Square
This city in Virginia was named for 2 men, William Newce & Christopher Newport
Newport News
Though you'll find a "personage" is a person, a "parsonage" isn't a parson but this
A minister's Home
Musical which opened on Broadway April 7, 1949 & gave us the following song:
"Some enchanted evening...."
South Pacific
This cabinet department is responsible for establishing weights & measures
Commerce
According to an old Dutch saying, "God created the world, but the Dutch" did this
Created Holland
To lure German capital to finance Northern Pacific Railway, Edwinton, N.D. was renamed this
Bismarck
Though "glossina" sounds pretty, it's the genus of 1 of these little suckers that carry sleeping sickness
Tsetse Fly
From mid 1948-late 1949, an average of 4,000 tons of provisions a day were being flown into this city
Berlin
The 2 presidents whose cabinet members were subjects of D. Halberstam's "The Best & the Brightest"
John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson
Established in 930 A.D. by Norse chieftains, the Althing in Iceland is the oldest of these in the world
Legislative Body (Parliament)
This oldest city in the U.S. was once the undisputed world leader in the building of shrimp boats
St. Augustine, Florida
You'll find it listed as a synonym for "enjoy" or described as a type of condiment
Relish
In June 1948, Stalin broke diplomatic ties with this European Communist country
Yugoslavia
2 of 4 presidents, 2 Republicans & 2 Democrats, in whose cabinets Henry L. Stimson served
F. Roosevelt, Truman, Taft and/or Hoover
Moravia, Freud's birthplace, is now part of this country
Czechoslovakia
Frontier Days, featuring world's oldest annual rodeo, are the pride of July for this Wyoming town
Cheyenne, Wyoming
It's defined as an alcoholic solution used as an astringent, not a sorceress
Witch Hazel
They were discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin boy looking for a missing goat
The Dead Sea Scrolls
He was Nixon & Ford's defense secretary & Carter's energy secretary
This country, not France, is the biggest European exporter of apparel to the U.S.
Italy
This city is 1 of world's largest cattle markets & home to the Strategic Air Command
Omaha, Nebraska
A "chandler" is both a type of merchant or a craftsman who makes these for a living
Candles