Some interesting facts about the 40's

[Maj.Nick Danger]

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade40.html

 

[Sefton]

It's really quite amazing to think about how many things changed in such fundamentaly drastic ways in period of only 10 years! Everything from the begining of civil rights to indoor plumbing! And check out the national debt...if only it were such now...

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

A lot more happens in ten years than we tend to realize.

I was surprized to see that they had just realized that Antarctica was a full-fledged continent.