That time an entire country ran out of coffee...
In 1975 East Germany ran out of coffee. The government's reaction had drastic consequences...
Sources:
Jeffrey Kopstein 2010. Ulbricht Embattled: The Quest for Socialist Modernity in the Light of New Sources. https://cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/faculty.sites.uci.edu/dist/9/994/files/2021/05/ulbricht_embattled.pdf
Andre Steiner 2010. The Plans that Failed: An Economic History of East Germany, 1945-1989. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=a-UT0xv_BV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Liston, R. and Sullivan, R. 1977. "Natural disasters, political turmoil reduce the world's supply of coffee" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZblPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VFIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6879%2C515801
Coffee Prices - 45 Year Historical Chart https://www.macrotrends.net/2535/coffee-prices-historical-chart-data
Quinn Slobodian 2015. Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g6UHCAAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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Harry Truman Was a Fraud
Harry Truman became President in 1945 as a virtual unknown and left the office in 1953 as a poor man; or, so the majority of people believe.
This is not true. Truman's wealth was hidden by his own deliberate action to allow him to gain a pension. Why?
Sources:
Main: "The Truman Show" Paul Campos 2021. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-truman-show.html
1. "Capt. Harry Truman Artilleryman and Future President" William J. Gilwee 1993 https://web.archive.org/web/20080614200949/http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/truman.htm
2."Monetary Policy When One Size Does Not Fit All:Federal Reserve Banks and the Recession of 1920-1921" Tallman, E. and White, E. N. 2017 https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/documents/news/conferences/2017/0515-workshop-on-monetary-and-financial-history/presentations/tallman-white.pdf
3."Largest U.S. Hooverville Had Its Own Mayor and a Church Made of Orange Crates" Erin Blakemore 2023 https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-life-in-largest-hooverville-st-louis
4."State of Missouri Income Tax Return for 1927 for Harry S. Truman" Harry S. Truman 1928 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7873458?objectPage=3
5."Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times" Page 131 Brian Burnes 2003 https://books.google.com.au/books?redir_esc=y&id=ZKk2Nuc20dQC&q=payroll#v=snippet&q=payroll&f=false)
6."Receipt for Purchase of Subscription to United States Treasury Bonds" 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/235147967
7."Stock Purchase Receipt, McDonald & Company, to Senator Harry S. Truman" 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/235147982
8."The Truman Committee: A Study in Congressional Responsibility." Donald H. Riddle 1964 https://archive.org/details/trumancommittees0000ridd
9."Billion-Dollar Watchdog" Time Magazine, 1943 https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,774390-5,00.htm
10."Legislative Reorganization Act 1946" 1946 https://www.umt.edu/media/wilderness/NWPS/documents/publiclaws/79-601.pdf
11."Summary of the Latest Federal Income Tax Data, 2022 Update" Erica York 2022 (https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2022-update/
12."Former Presidents: Federal Pension and Retirement Benefit" Stephanie Smith 2008 https://www.whitehousetransitionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pension-Retirement-Benefits_031808-1.pdf
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