EVB2947002: First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and Actress Mary Pickford promote Defense Bonds. April 1, 1953. The investment bonds were issued by the Treasury Department were called 'Defense Bonds' or 'Savings Bonds' during the 1950s, when the National Debt increased from billion in 1950 to billion in 1960. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947038: President Eisenhower with Senator Eva Kelley Bowring, a Republican from Nebraska. May 1, 1954. She was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Robert Crosby to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dwight Griswold and served from April 16, 1954, to November 7, 1954. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945458: Young women, working as technicians in the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. World War 2 labor shortage resulted in the hiring recent high school graduates and farm girls. Called 'Calutron Girls,' because they tended the 'CALifornia University cycloTRONs' that separated weapons grade uranium 235 from natural uranium 238 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2946390: Iva Toguri D'Aquino led from Federal Court in San Francisco by a U.S. Marshall. Based on perjured testimony, the former 'Tokyo Rose' was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined ,000 in 1949. She served six years in prison, but was later pardoned by President Gerald Ford / Bridgeman Images