For centuries, people dreamed of the possibility of traveling to the moon. In the middle of the twentieth century, two nations, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a fierce competition to see which would be the first to make that dream become a reality.

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When the Great Depression of the 1930s put many Americans out of work, President Franklin Roosevelt decided to institute a radical plan to assist the destitute. His was the first administration to provide economic relief directly to the working family.