1940s

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  • Avro Anson 19 1940s

    Avro Anson 19 1940s
    Airline: Brain & Brown Airfreighters 1970s (1944) Country: UK
    This was a conversion of the RAF's Anson communications aircraft, which had a turret in the
    Initially known as the Avro 652A, the Anson was developed during the mid-1930s from the earlier Avro 652 airliner in response The Avro Anson is a British twin-engined, multi-role aircraft built by aircraft manufacturer Avro. Large numbers of the type served

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt [D] 12

    Franklin D. Roosevelt [D] 12
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (/ˈroʊzəvəlt/;[1] January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a central figure in world events duringRoosevelt was born in Hyde Park,

  • skirts. Blouses

    skirts. Blouses
    1940s Utility Clothes: Image courtesy of Elizabeth Ewing, History of 20th Century Fashion, 1992. Image center and right courtesy of Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye, 20th Century Fashion, 1999.

  • Blouses

    Blouses
    Women's clothes of the 1940s were typically modeled after the utility clothes produced during war rationing. Squared shoulders, narrow hips, and skirts that ended just below the knee were the height of fashion. Tailored suits were also quite popular.
    Utility clothes typically featured squared shoulders, narrow hips, and skirts that ended just below the knee. Tailored suits were the dominant form of utility fashion.

  • Country music

    Country music
    Country Music Facts. Some country music facts you may be interested in knowing. Originally country music was referred to as “hillbilly music” and originated in the Southern United States in the 1920's. A lot of the country music of the 1920s was pretty rowdy and bawdy more so than it was in the 1930s

  • The Alan Dale Show (1948–1951) 30 min

    The Alan Dale Show (1948–1951) 30 min
    The Alan Dale Show was a musical variety show starring singers Alan Dale and Janie Ford and set in a record store. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, premiered August 10, 1948, and aired Tuesday nights from 7:00-7:15 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates.

  • Pants

    Pants
    1940s Utility Clothes: Image courtesy of Elizabeth Ewing. Image courtesy of Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye.
    Most of the women's fashions during the 1940s were designed with the same squared shoulders, small waist, and skirt above the knee. Do-it-yourself home fashions were encouraged, and women were educated on how to conserve material or update older dresses to the latest fashions. Again, these fashions reflected the style of the utility clothes.

  • Abbott and Costello 1940s

    Abbott and Costello 1940s
    Just like Lucy and Desi in the 1950s, there was a moment in time when Bud Abbott and Lou Costellocould do no wrong. They produced

  • Jazz

    Jazz
    first emerged in the black cultures of New Orleans from the mixed influences of ragtime (songs with a syncopated rhythm), blues, and the band music played at New Orleans funerals. The term jazz or jass derives from a Creole word that means both African dance and copulation. 1940s

  • CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

    CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
    World War II ended in Europe and the Pacific in 1945, and those two events dominated this year. The Nuremberg trials began, the United Nations was founded, and Korea was divided into North Minister Winston Churchill; FDR died just before the war ended in Europe; a firestorm consumed

  • Big band

    Big band
    But at a time roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, expansion spread everything out enough to make the universe transparent. The light released from this transition, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), still exists. It was first observed in the 1960s by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson

  • Citizen Kane (1941)

    Citizen Kane (1941)
    When that didn’t work he had Welles thoroughly libeled in all his papers.) Innovative cinematography, intriguing storytelling and great acting are all reasons to watch this dramatic mystery, in which journalists race to unspool the mystery of the absurdly wealthy and tyrannical Kane’s mysterious dying word, “Rosebud.”

  • Vintage 1940s 98 Cents Toys

    Vintage 1940s 98 Cents Toys
    Price: 98 cents
    Description A selection costing 98 cents including Anti-Aircraft Gun on back of Army Truck, Tractor and Trailer, Dump Truck and Car Transporter Wagon, they are all between 12

  • Vintage Gilbert Electric Train Set

    Vintage Gilbert Electric Train Set
    Price: $29.95 + $5.98 for 150 Watt Transformer
    Description 3/16 inch scale model Gilbert American Flyer Electric AC Train Set, the train and all the carriages are over 5ft long. Gilbert Company was an

  • 1940s Blackbird Crystal Set

    1940s Blackbird Crystal Set
    Price: $2.98
    Description Blackbird Crystal Set, picks up stations up to 75 miles away, use an earphone to listen to, comes with a 75ft aerial and 25ft ground wire.

  • Orson Welles 1941

    Orson Welles 1941
    In his 20s, Welles directed a number of high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of Macbeth with an entirely African American cast, and the political musical The Cradle Will Rock. In 1937 he and John Housemanfounded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941. Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G.

  • Computers 1940s

    Computers 1940s
    The Bombe(great britsh)