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clothes
1)Women's clothes of the 1940s were typically modeled after the utility clothes produced during war rationing.
2)Up until as late as 1940, the Paris couturiers were presenting spring-summer and autumn-winter shows and even finding time and imagination to present mid-season collections
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toys
1)A prime example is the BB gun, an air-powered gun powerful enough for target shooting but safe enough for older kids to use.
2) cap gun In a pinch, kids can turn just about anything into a guna stick, a banana, a finger but it always helped if the thing actually made an exploding noise
3)Ever since enterprising toymakers hit on the gimmick of combining electricity and sports, many a fan has whiled his rainy-day hours away over miniaturized electric versions of his favorite outdoor -
music
bing Crosby died of a heart attack today after a round of golf outside Madrid. He was 73 years old. Oct 15, 1977
Autry continued to attend Angels games when he was able. He contracted lymphoma and died at 91 on October 2, 1998
johnny Mercer died on June 25, 1976, from an inoperable brain tumor, in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Gene Autry continued to attend Angels games when he was able. He contracted lymphoma and died at 91 on October 2, 1998 -
radar, the jet engine
1)We can see objects in the world around us because light
Imagine trying to land a jumbo jet the size of a large building on a short strip of tarmac, in the middle of a city, in the depth of the night, in thick fog.2) If you can't see where you're going, how can you hope to land safely
3)this difficulty using radar, a way of "seeing" that uses high-frequency radio waves -
tv/radio show (Baby Snooks and Daddy)
1)The Baby Snooks Show was an American radio program starring comedienne and Ziegfeld Follies alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress who played her when she first went on the air.
2)The series began on CBS September 17, 1944, airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm as Toasties Time
3)The title soon changed to The Baby Snooks Show, and the series was sometimes called Baby Snooks and Daddy -
sports figure (Joe DiMaggio)
1(DiMaggio received the Most Valuable Player award for the American League in 1939, 1941, and 1947
2)He retired at the end of the 1951 season
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actor (Humphrey Bogart)
1) nicknamed Bogey
2)Born December 25, 1899, in New York City, New York, USA
3)Died January 14, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, USA
made a movie in 1943 called Sahara -
D'Day
1)June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
2)Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target
3)The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
president
Franklin D. Roosevelt 12 years served
1)January 30, 1882 birthday
2)6 foot 2
3)Died in 1945
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transportation
Milk truck
1)35,200 is the price
2)It was commonly used as a milk truck
3)International harvester is the people that made the truck
https://www.autobodynews.com/index.php/on-the-lighter-side/item/20123-watch-a-1940-s-milk-truck-show-off-its-hot-rod-status.html -
movies (pinky)
1)Pinky (1949) was yet another Zanuck-produced “social problem” film, this time
2)for director Elia Kazan’s film Pinky (1949) but left the project, angered at what he feared would be the film’s degrading portrayal of its black characters
3)William Lundigan. Pinky, a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds that she is able to pass for white.