They viewed reaching an advanced age as a significant accomplishment.
Life expectancy in early colonial Virginia was less than 25 years -- including the reality of infant mortality and a high number of deaths in childhood. In the colonial beginnings of New England, around 40% of children died before reaching adult age. Life in the colonies was very hard for the early colonists.
<span>Munn v. Illinois won states the right to regulate the railroads. </span>
Inflation and unemployment rose to their peaks by the end of the 1970s. This happened because the fiscal deficit was largely financed by the federal finances. Further, an energy crisis was being faced due to the increase in the price of crude oil. This led to overall inflation and economic instability.
A series of events led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. ... (The day after the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese indeed launched their invasion of the Philippines). Planning for the attack on Pearl Harbor had begun in very early 1941, by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
Among them were imperial rivalry, poisonous nationalism, overconfidence in the military, placing too much trust in alliances and not enough in diplomacy. Russia's economy was still developing and reliant on foreign investment; her industrial sector was incapable of competing with the powerhouse German economy. Three years of total war would exhaust the Russian economy and leave its people starving, freezing and miserable.
