Porter, Sylvia F. (1913-1991), Papers, 1939-1991 (C3977)

16 linear feet, 3 video cassettes, 6 audio cassettes

INTRODUCTION

The papers of Sylvia Porter, a personal finance columnist who wrote for the New York Post and New York Daily News, consist of her columns, books, speeches, and other writings. Correspondence and publicity clippings concerning the Sylvia Porter Organization and her involvement in President Ford's efforts to curb inflation in the 1970s are also included.

DONOR INFORMATION

The Sylvia F. Porter Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by her husband, James F. Fox, on 23 June 1994 (Accession No. 5443). They are part of the National Women and Media Collection.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Sylvia Porter was born Sarianni Feldman to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Rose and Louis Feldman, on 18 June 1913, in Patchogue, New York. Her mother was a suffragist and her father was a doctor who died when Sylvia was 12 years old.

Stunned by the collapse of the stock market during her freshman year at Hunter College in 1929, Porter changed her major from English literature to economics and graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1932. That same year she married Reed F. Porter.

She went to work at a small investment firm on Wall Street learning the ropes of government securities while also taking graduate courses at New York University School of Business Administration. Porter began writing in specialized financial magazines under the byline S.F. Porter in order to hide the fact that she was a woman. It wasn't until 1942 that she revealed her full name to her readers.

Starting in 1934 she wrote a weekly column in the American Banker on government securities and later started her own information service on government bonds called Reporting on Governments. In 1935 she began writing occasional columns for the New York Post and by 1936 she was named financial editor of the paper.

In 1940 Porter was summoned to Washington, D.C., to meet with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who told her of his plans to issue government bonds similar to the Liberty Bonds issued during World War I. Porter, remembering how her parents lost a significant amount of money due to fluctuations in these bonds, refused to support the idea. During this meeting the two came up with the idea for the non-negotiable, guaranteed U.S. Savings Bond that is still in use today.

Her column was syndicated beginning in 1947 and would eventually reach 40 million readers in 450 newspapers around the world. In 1978 she moved her column from the Post to the Daily News.

Between 1965 and 1982 Porter wrote monthly articles for the Ladies Home Journal. She also wrote scores of books including, How to Make Money in Government Bonds (1939), How to Live Within Your Income, with J.K. Lasser (1948), and Sylvia Porter's Money Book (1975).

In addition she wrote a yearly tax guide from 1960 to 1987 and numerous magazine articles. She also edited Reporting on Governments, Sylvia Porter's Active Retirement Newsletter, Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine and served on the editorial board of World Book Encyclopedia from 1961 until the board was dissolved in 1982.

Because Porter was so successful at translating economic "bafflegab" for common people, she was admired and respected by politicians and policy makers in Washington, D.C., who often entered her columns into the Congressional Record or asked her advice on fiscal issues. In fact Lyndon Johnson asked her to become his Treasury Secretary in 1964 and Gerald Ford invited Porter to speak at the White House Conference on Inflation in 1974 and chair the Citizens' Action Committee to Fight Inflation.

In 1987 the Sylvia Porter Organization was incorporated to manage all of Porter's publications and business dealings. The corporation farmed out most of Porter's writing assignments to ghost writers although she made a final review of every word before any of her publications went into print. The corporation was dissolved shortly before Porter's death on 5 June 1991.

She received numerous awards and honorary degrees including Woman of the Year in 1975 and Woman of the Decade in 1979, awarded by the Ladies Home Journal.

Porter divorced Reed Porter in 1941. In 1943 she married G. Sumner Collins and they adopted a daughter, Cris, in 1949. Collins died in 1977 and two years later, Porter married James F. Fox.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Sylvia F. Porter Papers are arranged into eight series:

The Correspondence series contains letters written to Porter from her literary agents, lawyer, and organizations requesting that Porter write an article or give a speech for them. This series also contains correspondence between Porter and various members of White House administrations praising Porter for her work. Letters from presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Ford are included. A few letters of a personal nature are scattered throughout the series but the bulk of the correspondence is business related. The series is arranged chronologically.

The Speeches series is arranged chronologically and includes speeches given by Porter throughout her long career. Topics of these speeches include equality of women in the workplace and economic and consumer education. In some cases she gave the same speech on multiple occasions and the dates of these other addresses are noted on the original speeches.

The Publicity series consists of clippings from newspapers and magazines about Porter. This series, arranged chronologically, documents Porter's rise from a part-time columnist in the 1930s to a financial guru in the 1970s and 1980s. Up until the mid-1980s most of the articles focused on Porter's gender and would be useful to researchers studying women employed in "traditionally male" occupations.

The Scrapbooks series contains more publicity clippings and correspondence that Porter felt was worth organizing. Included in this series are articles she wrote for The Export and Import Journal of America during the late 1940s. Most of the scrapbooks are arranged chronologically but others, listed at the end of the series, consist of materials related to various publications of hers.

The Subject Files series is arranged alphabetically by topic and includes awards and honors given to Porter, biographical and family information, and photographs and sketches of Porter. This series also contains photographs and the program from the christening of the cargo ship, S.S. Hope Victory in 1945. Porter was the maid of honor at the launching.

The Citizens' Action Committee series consists of minutes, speeches, correspondence, and newspaper clippings concerning Porter's participation in President Ford's program to curb inflation. Called Whip Inflation Now, or WIN, the program promoted corporate and consumer responsibility, community gardens, recycling, and energy conservation. This series is arranged chronologically.

The Writings series contains Porter's newspaper columns, magazine articles, tax guides, and books, including an unpublished novel she wrote in 1940 entitled, Those Who Never Sing. This series also contains the Reporting on Governments newsletter and yearly articles written by the editorial board of World Book Encyclopedia of which Porter was a member for 20 years.

User's manuals for computer programs bearing Porter's name and works published by the Sylvia Porter organization such as Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine and Sylvia Porter's Active Retirement Newsletter are also in this series. Correspondence relating to several of these publications is also included.

Of special interest to World War II researchers are the book, If War Comes to the American Home, and the articles, "The Nazi Chemical Trust in the United States," and "The Morgenthau Plan." In the book Porter explains the economic realities of the coming war and how they will affect the American household including rationing, bond sales, and price and wage controls. In "The Nazi Chemical Trust" Porter claimed the I.G. Farben Company, which had subsidiaries in the U.S., was the economic and political force behind Hitler. "The Morgenthau Plan" was used as a chapter in the book, Let Germany Earn the Peace, and detailed Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau's economic reconstruction plan for Germany after the war.

The topics of Porter's newspaper columns vary widely but they do help document the lives of the Baby Boomer generation from an economic standpoint. She wrote about the costs of marriage and child rearing, how to buy a home, and the rise of suburbia in the 1940s and 1950s. Other topics include school funding and overcrowding in the 1950s, the teenage driven economy in the 1950s and 1960s, paying for college, health insurance, and planning for retirement. Porter also wrote extensively on women in the workplace and discrimination against older workers. With these columns she helped establish the concepts of personal finance and consumerism.

Unfortunately the first 12 years of her column are missing from her papers, but Porter did keep a complete run of her columns from 1947, when she first became syndicated, through 1991, when she died. Also, the run of Reporting on Governments is missing issues from the early 1950s, late 1960s, and early 1970s. The Writings series is arranged alphabetically by title, except for her newspaper columns, which are arranged chronologically at the end of this series.

The Audio/Visual series consists of a series of personal finance audio cassettes produced by the Sylvia Porter Organization, two television commercials advertising Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, a video tape on investment strategies, and a video of Porter's appearance on the "Today Show" in 1979.

FOLDER LIST

Correspondence Series

f. 11943-1948
f. 21949
f. 31950
f. 41951
f. 5-61952
f. 71953
f. 81954-1955
f. 91956-1957
f. 101958-1963
f. 111964-1967
f. 121968-1969
f. 131970-1972
f. 141973
f. 15-161974
f. 17-191975
f. 201976
f. 21-221977
f. 231980-1982 February
f. 241982 March-December
f. 251983-1984 February
f. 261984 March-December
f. 271985 January-July
f. 281985 August-1986 March
f. 291986 June-1987 March
f. 301987 April-December
f. 31-321988
f. 33-341989
f. 351990 January-March
f. 361990 April-August
f. 371990 September-1991 May

Speeches Series

f. 38War and Government Control of the Bond Markets, June 1940
f. 39Woman's Place in the Business World, March 1948
f. 40The Brain Has No Sex, January 1950
f. 41Hunter College Commencement, January 1951
f. 42Invest in America, October 1951
f. 43Importance of Economics in Our World Today, November 1951
f. 44This Way to Economic Stability, October 1952
f. 45The Consumer's Stake In Distribution, October 1953
f. 46Your Savings Program, November 1953
f. 47Untitled, Washington, D.C., 1953
f. 48The Automobile Dealer's Stake in the Consumer, 1954
f. 49Untitled, Chapel Hill, N.C., March 1956
f. 50What Every Woman Should Know About Money, September 1956
f. 51Charter of Economic Human Rights, September 1956
f. 52Women Are No Longer News, June 1957
f. 53Money For Keeps, March 1958
f. 5410 Rules for Investing $2500, 1950s
f. 55What 19,000,000 Women Want, 1950s
f. 56How About Your Lazy Money, 1950s
f. 57New York Newspaper Women's Club "How To" Book, 1950s
f. 58Why Am I Here?, January 1960
f. 59Economic Illiteracy, February 1960
f. 60What's Next for Business and Investments, November 1960
f. 61Why Should You Bother to Promote Me?, May 1961
f. 62Business News for Everybody, November 1961
f. 63Business and Economic Developments of 1961
f. 64Why Am I Here?, October 1962
f. 65Exploding Some Myths About Marketing, March 1963
f. 66Phi Chi Theta, June 1966
f. 67Businessmen, Police Thyself, March 1968
f. 68The Value of a Business Education, 1960s
f. 69Untitled, Hawaii, April 1970
f. 70Theta Sigma, May 1972
f. 71Indiana State University Commencement, May 1974
f. 72Pre-Summit Conference on Inflation, September 1974
f. 73University of Missouri School of Journalism, April 1975
f. 74Sigma Delta Chi, May 1975
f. 75ABA Convention, May 1975
f. 76The Hidden Threat to America's Economic System, December 1975
f. 77Women in Communications, May 1976
f. 78Inequitable Treatment of Women in Our Social Security System, 1977
f. 79Where Have We Been? Where Are We? Where Are We Going?, January 1978
f. 801975-1978 Expansion Enters Late Middle Age, May 1978
f. 81Planning for Your Retirement, c. 1978
f. 82Woman of the Year, June 1979
f. 83Bob Considine Award, October 1979
f. 84Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Award, October 1979
f. 85New York Financial Writer's Frolic, November 1979
f. 86Inflation and the World in Which You Live, December 1979
f. 87Your Guide to Off-Beat and On Target, December 1979
f. 88A Country Where Nobody Speaks the Truth, December 1979
f. 89Diamonds- A Dilemma, December 1979
f. 90Downturn in 1980- And Then?, 1979
f. 91Economic Miseries, May 1980
f. 92The Seersucker Theory of Economic Forecasting, c. 1980
f. 93Women in Communications, c. 1982
f. 94United States Senate, April 1983
f. 95Hunter College, April 1983
f. 96Mystery Writers of America, May 1984
f. 97Interview, May 1984
f. 98Who's in Charge Here?, May 1984
f. 99Mills College, May 1984
f. 100Untitled, Hawaii, October 1985
f. 101Charter of Economic Human Rights, October 1985
f. 102The Trend- Up or Down?, November 1985
f. 103Truth in Medicines?, 1980s
f. 104Kate Smith Award, January 1991
f. 105Untitled and Undated Speeches

Publicity Series

f. 1061930s-1953
f. 1071954-1964
f. 1081965-1973
f. 1091974 April-October
f. 1101974 November-1975 September
f. 1111975 October-1977
f. 1121978-1983
f. 1131984-1987
f. 1141987 Promotion Kit
f. 1151988-1989
f. 1161980s, n.d.- 1991

Scrapbooks Series

f. 117-1211942-1943
f. 122-1281944-1950
f. 129-1321963-1964
f. 133-1381969-1974
f. 139-1431978-1984
f. 144-1451984-1986
f. 1461987-1991
f. 1471991
f. 148-150Your Own Money, 1983-1984
f. 151-153Personal Finance Magazine, 1983-1987
f. 154Love & Money, 1985-1986

Subject Files Series

f. 155-156Awards and Honors
f. 157Biographical
f. 158-159Dorcas Campbell
f. 160Miscellaneous
f. 161Photographs, 1960s
f. 162Photographs, 1970s
f. 163Photographs, 1980s
f. 164Sketches
f. 165S.S. Hope Victory

Citizens' Action Committee Series

f. 1661974 August-2 October
f. 1671974 October 3-11
f. 1681974 October 12-18
f. 1691974 October 19-29
f. 1701974 October30-1974 November 11
f. 1711974 November 12-19
f. 1721974 November 20-21
f. 1731974 November 23-29
f. 174n.d. November-1974 December 12
f. 1751974 December 17-24
f. 1761975 January 3-16
f. 1771975 January 18
f. 1781975 January 18-31
f. 1791975 February-1976 January

Writings Series

f. 180Advisory Committee on Federal Salaries Report, 1967
f. 181The Best of Sylvia Porter's Money Book, 1976
f. 182Colliers, 1952
f. 183-189The Economics of Your Personal Life, 1970s
f. 190Forward to Book by Dorcas Campbell, 1950s
f. 191-192The High Cost of Good Health, 1970s
f. 193How to Get a Better Job, 1981
f. 194How to Get More For Your Money, 1961
f. 195How to Live Within Your Income, 1948
f. 196How to Make Money In Government Bonds, 1939
f. 197How To Make the Most of the Home You Own, 1981
f. 198How to Manage Your Money, 1967
f. 199If War Comes to the American Home, 1941
f. 200-206Ladies Home Journal, 1965 October 1965-1982
f. 207Love & Money, 1985
f. 208Managing Your Money, 1953
f. 209Managing Your Money, 1961
f. 210Miscellaneous Writings, 1930s-1990s
f. 211"The Morgenthau Plan" (Chapter in the book, Let Germany Earn the Peace), 1945
f. 212The Nazi Chemical Trust in the United States, 1942
f. 213-215Reader's Digest, 1940s
f. 216Reporting on Governments, Correspondence
f. 217-220Reporting on Governments, 1943-1944
f. 221Reporting on Governments, 1945
f. 222Reporting on Governments, 1958-1967
f. 223-224Reporting on Governments, 1977
f. 225-227Reporting on Governments, 1978
f. 228Reporting on Governments, 1979
f. 229Swiftax User's Manual, 1986
f. 230Sylvia Porter's 385 Tax Saving Tips, 1988
f. 231Sylvia Porter's 442 Tax Saving Tips, 1989
f. 232Sylvia Porter's 495 Tax Saving Tips, 1990
f. 233-234Sylvia Porter's Active Retirement Newsletter, Correspondence, 1983-1990 October
f. 235Sylvia Porter's Active Retirement Newsletter, November 1988-June 1989
f. 236Sylvia Porter's Active Retirement Newsletter, July 1989-February 1990
f. 237Sylvia Porter's A Home of Your Own, 1989
f. 238Sylvia Porter's Financial Almanac for 1983
f. 239Sylvia Porter's Financial Almanac for 1984
f. 240Sylvia Porter's Guide to Your Health Care, 1990
f. 241Sylvia Porter's Income Tax Guide, Correspondence
f. 242Sylvia Porter's Income Tax Guide, 1960-1962
f. 243Sylvia Porter's 1963 Income Tax Guide
f. 244Sylvia Porter's 1964 Income Tax Guide
f. 245Sylvia Porter's 1965 Income Tax Guide
f. 246Sylvia Porter's 1966 Income Tax Guide
f. 247Sylvia Porter's 1967 Income Tax Guide
f. 248Sylvia Porter's 1968 Income Tax Guide
f. 249Sylvia Porter's 1969 Income Tax Guide
f. 250Sylvia Porter's 1970 Income Tax Guide
f. 251Sylvia Porter's 1971 Income Tax Guide
f. 252Sylvia Porter's 1972 Income Tax Guide
f. 253Sylvia Porter's 1973 Income Tax Guide
f. 254Sylvia Porter's 1974 Income Tax Guide
f. 255Sylvia Porter's 1975 Income Tax Guide
f. 256Sylvia Porter's 1976 Income Tax Guide
f. 257Sylvia Porter's 1977 Income Tax Guide
f. 258Sylvia Porter's 1978 Income Tax Guide
f. 259Sylvia Porter's 1979 Income Tax Guide
f. 260Sylvia Porter's 1980 Income Tax Guide
f. 261Sylvia Porter's 1981 Income Tax Guide
f. 262Sylvia Porter's 1982 Income Tax Guide
f. 263Sylvia Porter's 1983 Income Tax Guide
f. 264Sylvia Porter's 1984 Income Tax Guide
f. 265Sylvia Porter's 1985 Income Tax Guide
f. 266Sylvia Porter's 1986 Income Tax Guide
f. 267Sylvia Porter's 1987 Income Tax Guide
f. 268 Sylvia Porter's Money Book, 1975
f. 269Sylvia Porter's New Money Book for the 80s, 1979
f. 270Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Guides: Estate Planning, 1986
f. 271Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, Correspondence, 1981-1982
f. 272Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, Correspondence, 1983
f. 273-274Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, Correspondence, 1984-1985
f. 275-277Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, Correspondence, 1986-1989
f. 278Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, December 1983
f. 279-284Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, 1984
f. 285-290Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, 1985
f. 291-300Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, 1986
f. 301-308Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, 1987
f. 309Sylvia Porter's Planning Your Retirement, 1991
f. 310Sylvia Porter's Your Finances in the 90s, 1990
f. 311Sylvia Porter's Your Own Money, 1983
f. 312-313Sylvia Porter's Your Personal Financial Planner User's Manual, 1984
f. 314-315Sylvia Porter's Your Personal Investment Manager User's Manual, 1987
f. 316Tax Law Breaks, 1977
f. 317-324Those Who Never Sing, 1930s
f. 325United Press Syndicate Long Columns, 1982-1983
f. 326World Book Year Book Supplement, 1962-1966
f. 327World Book Year Book Supplement, 1967-1971
f. 328World Book Year Book Supplement, 1972-1975
f. 329World Book Year Book Supplement, 1976-1979
f. 330World Book Year Book Supplement, 1980
f. 331World Book Year Book Supplement, 1981
f. 332World Book Year Book Supplement, 1982
f. 333World Book Year Book Supplement, 1983
f. 334Your Financial Security, 1987
f. 335-340Columns, 1947
f. 341-346Columns, 1948
f. 347-352Columns, 1949
f. 353-358Columns, 1950
f. 359-364Columns, 1951
f. 365-370Columns, 1952
f. 371-376Columns, 1953
f. 377-382Columns, 1954
f. 383-388Columns, 1955
f. 389-394Columns, 1956
f. 395-400Columns, 1957
f. 401-406Columns, 1958
f. 407-412Columns, 1959
f. 413-418Columns, 1960
f. 419-424Columns, 1961
f. 425-430Columns, 1962
f. 431-436Columns, 1963
f. 437-442Columns, 1964
f. 443-448Columns, 1965
f. 449-454Columns, 1966
f. 455-460Columns, 1967
f. 461-466Columns, 1968
f. 467-472Columns, 1969
f. 473-478Columns, 1970
f. 479-484Columns, 1971
f. 485-490Columns, 1972
f. 491-496Columns, 1973
f. 497-502Columns, 1974
f. 503-508Columns, 1975
f. 509-514Columns, 1976
f. 515-520Columns, 1977
f. 521-526Columns, 1978
f. 527-532Columns, 1979
f. 533-538Columns, 1980
f. 539-544Columns, 1981
f. 545-550Columns, 1982
f. 551-556Columns, 1983
f. 557-562Columns, 1984
f. 563-568Columns, 1985
f. 569-574Columns, 1986
f. 575-580Columns, 1987
f. 581-586Columns, 1988
f. 587-592Columns, 1989
f. 593-598Columns, 1990
f. 599-601Columns, 1991

Audio/Visual Series

a.c. 1Make Yourself House Rich, 1986
a.c. 2The High Cost of Raising a Child, 1987
a.c. 3Mutual Funds, 1987
a.c. 4Be Your Own Boss, 1987
a.c. 5Tax-Advantaged Investments, 1987
a.c. 6Smart Money, 1987
v.c. 1"Today Show" Interview, 1979
v.c. 2Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine TV Commercials, 1984
v.c. 3Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Video: 7 Winning Investment Strategies, 1987

INDEX TERMS

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  • Adult education
  • Advertising
  • Advertising and blacks
  • Advertising and children
  • Advertising and women
  • Advertising, Fraudulent
  • Age discrimination
  • Agriculture-Economic aspects, 1950s
  • AIDS phobia
  • Alcoholism
  • Antisemitism
  • Automobile industry
  • Automobiles-Seatbelts
  • Baruch, Bernard M. (1870-1965)
  • Black women-Employment
  • Blacks-Advertising
  • Blacks-Census
  • Blacks-Crimes against
  • Blacks-Employment
  • Blacks-Finance
  • Blacks-Integration
  • Blood donors
  • Campbell, Dorcas E. ( -1959)
  • Car pools
  • Census
  • Child care centers
  • Child support
  • Children-Advertising
  • Children-Employment
  • Cigarettes
  • Cities and towns-Growth
  • Citizens' Action Committee to Fight Inflation
  • Civil service-Salaries, etc.
  • Community centers
  • Compulsive gambling
  • Computers
  • Cooperative societies
  • Deafness
  • Debt
  • Disarmament
  • Divorce-Economic aspects
  • Dropouts
  • Drug abuse
  • Early childhood education
  • Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
  • Economics
  • Economics-Study and teaching
  • Education-Experimental methods
  • Education-Finance
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969)
  • Elderly-Crimes against
  • Elderly-Employment
  • Elderly-Finance
  • Elderly-Housing
  • Elderly-Medical care
  • Elderly-Political activity
  • Elderly-Transportation
  • Employment tests
  • Energy crisis, 1970s
  • Equal Pay Act, 1962
  • Equal rights amendment
  • Executives' wives
  • Express highways
  • Federal aid to libraries
  • Finance, Personal
  • Ford, Gerald R., Jr. (1913- )
  • Foster home care
  • Freedom of the press
  • Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
  • Gardening
  • Handicapped
  • Handicapped-Employment
  • Head Start
  • Hoarding of food
  • Hospices
  • Housewives
  • Housing, 1940s
  • Housing, 1950s
  • Housing, 1960s
  • Housing, 1970s
  • Housing-Modernization
  • Humphrey, George Magoffin (1890-1970)
  • I.G. Farben Company
  • Illiteracy-Adults
  • Immigration and emigration-Economic aspects
  • Industry-Modernization
  • Infants-Mortality, 1990s
  • Inflation (Finance), 1970s
  • Insurance, Health
  • International Monetary Fund
  • Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
  • Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)-Economic aspects
  • Language, Modern-Study and teaching
  • Lasser, J.K. ( -1954)
  • Libraries
  • Lotteries
  • Machinery in industry
  • Marriage--Teenagers, 1960s
  • Mass media-Women
  • McGovern, George S. (1922- )
  • Medical care
  • Medicare
  • Medicine--Research
  • Metric system
  • Military service, Compulsory, 1968
  • Mobile homes
  • Modernization-Housing
  • Modernization-Industry
  • Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. (1891-1967)
  • Nader, Ralph (1934- )
  • National Women and Media Collection
  • New York World's Fair, 1964-1965
  • Nuclear power
  • Occupational training
  • Persian Gulf War (1991)--Economic aspects
  • Pets
  • Physically handicapped--Rehabilitation
  • Poliomyelitis vaccine
  • Pollution
  • Porter, Sylvia F. (1913-1991)
  • Poverty
  • Pregnancy Discrimination Act, 1979
  • Pregnant women--Employment
  • Price regulation
  • Prisoners--Employment
  • Public welfare
  • Quacks and quackery
  • Railroads--Finance
  • Rationing, 1940s
  • Rationing, 1950s
  • Rationing, 1970s
  • Reconstruction (1930-1951)
  • Recycling (Waste, etc.)
  • Refuse and refuse disposal
  • Research, Industrial
  • Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- )
  • Retirement
  • Retirement--Psychological aspects
  • Retraining, Occupational
  • Rusk, Howard A. (1901-1989)
  • S.S. Hope Victory (Cargo ship)
  • Schools-Overcrowding, 1950s
  • Science-Study and teaching
  • Sex discrimination
  • Sexual harassment
  • Shopping centers and malls
  • Silver industry, 1942
  • Social security
  • Socialism--Attitudes toward
  • Solar energy
  • Space flight--Economic aspects
  • Steel industry
  • Strikes and lockouts--Steel industry, 1956
  • Students--Employment
  • Students--Finance
  • Students--Political activity
  • Subscription television
  • Sunday legislation
  • Supply-side economics
  • Swindlers and swindling
  • Teachers--Salaries
  • Television
  • Television and children
  • United States. Army-Modernization
  • United States--Foreign relations-Asia
  • United States--Foreign relations-China
  • United States--Foreign relations-Cuba
  • United States--Foreign relations-Czechoslovakia
  • United States--Foreign relations-Israel
  • United States--Foreign relations-Soviet Union
  • Unmarried mothers
  • Urban renewal
  • Veterans--Benefits
  • Veterans--Employment
  • Veterans--Housing
  • Vietnamese War (1961-1975)--Economic aspects
  • Vinson, Frederick Moore (1890-1953)
  • Vocational Education Act, 1963
  • Voting, 1960
  • War-Economic aspects
  • White House Conference on Aging, 1971
  • White House Conference on Inflation, 1974
  • Wife abuse
  • Willkie, Wendell (1892-1944)
  • Women and advertisements
  • Women athletes
  • Women bankers
  • Women economists
  • Women journalists
  • Women, Black--Employment
  • Women-Employment
  • Women--Finance
  • Women--Mass media
  • Women--Medical care
  • Women--Political activityWorld Bank
  • World War, 1939-1945--Bonds
  • World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects
  • World War, 1939-1945--Espionage
  • World War, 1939-1945--Shipbuilding