When Carl Harold Doerr was born on 14 September 1924, in Hamburg, Calhoun, Illinois, United States, his father, Frank Doerr, was 32 and his mother, Ruby Dell Laird, was 23. He died on 3 December 1999, in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Carrollton City Cemetery, Carrollton Township, Greene, Illinois, United States.
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The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
German (Dörr): variant of Dürr (see Durr ). Compare Dorr 1.
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