SIR - Imagine Hitler had won the Battle of Britain in 1940, and we were under the Nazi jackboot. Hitler was real; Nazism was real; the Gestapo was real; Auschwitz was real; Belsen was real; the jackboot was real; the V1 and the V2 rocket were real - and it was all just 18 miles from our shores.
Fannie Mae held a veritable monopoly over the secondary mortgage market. In 1968...In order to prevent any further monopolization of the market, a second GSE known as Freddie Mac was created in 1970. Currently, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac control about 90 percent of the nation's secondary mortgage market. .
Creator of McDonald's Big Mac dies at 98. The man who created the Big Mac, which went on to be one of the world's best known sandwiches, died Monday. Michael Jim Delligatti, who invented McDonald's two-tiered burger at his Uniontown, Pa., franchise, was 98. Delligatti began tinkering with the store's burger in the mid-1960s.