This Week in Business History for April 19th: Cross-word Mamma You Puzzle Me
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Cruciverbalists gather \\u2018round\\u2026 this week\\u2019s podcast is something you\\u2019re not going to want to miss. On April 18th, 1924, the first crossword puzzle book was published by Simon and Schuster. It included a pencil and eraser, but no answers. Nearly 100 years later, approximately half of all Americans aged 18 and older do crosswords, 60% of them in newspapers. Listen to this week\\u2019s episode of This Week in Business History for the story behind crossword puzzles: who is considered their \\u201cmother,\\u201d what role they played in World Wars I and II, and how they got their name from a well-placed typo.
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