At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be supplied indefinitely by air.
Read about the rise in African American higher education and publications, along with African Americans who served in the military during this time period.
Read about proclamations and warnings made by prominent figures and institutions going into the 20th century, and the American innovation and boosterism present at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
In trying to define the rationale behind pointedly striving to acquire more than one could ever need, economist Thorsten Veblen,in 1899, coined the term "conspicuous consumption."
