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  • U.S. President

    U.S. President
    http://www.uspresidentelection.us/president_summary.php?year=1940_2012&chart=pres&rank=Ys . Roosevelt was a New York City police commissioner. He won the Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt was the first sitting president to leave the country.

  • toys

    toys
    https://www.retrowaste.com/1940s/toys-in-the-1940s/ . you name it. If mom had it, they made a small version for lil JaneThey had toy brooms, mops, tea sets, irons, ovens. Guns and military type toys Every little kid had a toy like this in the 1940. Gilbert Erector Sets Millions of Erector sets have delighted and inspired generations of future engineers and architects.

  • Fashion

    Fashion
    https://www.uvm.edu/landscape/dating/clothing_and_hair/1940s_clothing_women.php . Blouses typically had padded shoulders. Pants (or slacks) first gained popularity for women during the 1940s that why they wore them. WWII was over, the "New Look" began to replace the wartime utility fashions. Blouses were worn frequently with skirts.

  • Transportation

    Transportation
    http://www.northwesthistoryexpress.com/timeline/transportation1940.php . Freight service ended in 1962 and finally in 1969 the Pennsylvania Railroad closed. Hilliard was no longer in business. People had moved on to bigger and better things, namely the automobile and trucks. The automobile opened doors for people. Now that people could live farther away from where they would work.

  • Music

    Music
    https://www.retrowaste.com/1940s/music-in-the-1940s/ . The Andrews Sisters roughout their career, the sisters sold over 75 million records in the 1940s. The mills brothers were an African-American jazz and pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records. Hank Williams was an American singer-songwriter and musician.

  • Actor or Actress

    Actor or Actress
    /www.imdb.com/list/ls000085085/ . James Stewart in the 1940s. James Maitland “Jimmy” Stewart was an American actor, known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona. He starred in many films that are considered to be classics, and is known for portraying an American middle-class man struggling with a crisis. Stewart was named the third greatest male screen legend of the Golden Age Hollywood by the American Film Institute. He was a major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star.

  • Movie

    Movie
    http://www.filmsite.org/40sintro.html . Citizen Kane in 1940 ORSON WELLES GOT UNPRECEDENTED CREATIVE CONTROL. WELLES' FIRST IDEA WAS AN ADAPTATION OF HEART OF DARKNESS. AUTHORSHIP OF THE SCRIPT IS STILL DISPUTED.

  • News Event

    News Event
    https://www.thoughtco.com/1940s-timeline-1779951 . Mount Rushmore, also known as the President's Mountain, is located in the Black Hills of Keystone, South Dakota. he sculpture of four famous presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, was carved into the granite rock. According to the National Park Service, the monument is visited each year by more than three million people.

  • Technology

    Technology
    https://www.preceden.com/timelines/70998-technology-from-1940-1980 . Color TV Invented in 1940s The straight facts about color TV (1950) CBS made the first attempt to wade into the color television waters with their field-sequential color system, which was actually a mechanical system that used a rotating disc of color filters within the camera. March 1954: Westinghouse offers color TV for sale. Cost: $1,295. March 25, 1954: Mass production of first RCA Victor color sets, model CT-100.

  • Sports Figure

    Sports Figure
    http://ainsworthsports.com/athlete_rankings_by_decade_1940s.htm . Jackie Robinson in the 1947. He was the first black person to play baseball. Jackie Robinson had an older brother, Matthew, who won a silver medal in the 200-meter dash at the 1936 Olympics. Robinson was drafted and assigned to a segregated Army cavalry unit in Fort Riley, Kansas.

  • tv show

    tv show
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165594/
    eDouble Doody, Howdy's brother, is enjoying his retirement at the Smithsonian Institut.Howdy Doody was an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on the NBC network in the United States from December 27, 1947, untilSeptember 24, 1960.Howdy is living at the Detroit Institute of Arts. His sister was HeidiDoody and there was Photo Doody.