- Population
132,122,000
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Unemployed in 1940 - 8,120,000
- National
Debt $43 Billion
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Average Salary $1,299. Teacher's salary $1,441
Minimum Wage $.43 per hour
- 55%
of U.S. homes have indoor plumbing
- Antarctica
is discovered to be a continent
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Life expectancy 68.2 female, 60.8 male
- Auto
deaths 34,500
- Supreme
Court decides blacks do have a right to vote
- World
War II changed the order of world power, the United
States and the USSR became super powers
- Cold
War begins.
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