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Working Americans Vol. 4: Their Children

Historical Snapshot 1944

  • The massive D-Day invasion of Normandy required 156,000 troops; 16,434 soldiers were killed, 7,653 wounded and 19,704 missing

  • The War Refugee Board revealed the first details of the mass murder at Birkenau and Auschwitz, estimating that 1.7 million people had been killed

  • Half the steel, tin and paper needed for the war was provided by recycled goods

  • Paper shortages stimulated publishers’ experiments with softcover books

  • Franklin Roosevelt was reelected president for a fourth term

  • First appearances included Chiquita bananas, quadruplets delivered by cæsarean section, and Seabrook Farms

  • The Dow-Jones Industrial Average reached a high of 152 and a low of 135, while unemployment was measured at 1.2 percent

  • Popular songs included “Don’t Fence Me In,” “Irresistible You,” “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year” and Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight”

  • Important museum exhibitions included a reconstruction in Cincinnati of the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York

  • The war cost $250 million per day

  • The U.S. Army announced the development of a jet-propelled, propless plane

  • Lt. John F. Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for “extreme heroism” in rescuing two sailors after a Japanese destroyer cut his PT boat in half

  • The GI Bill of Rights was enacted to finance college education for veterans, and to provide four percent home loans with no down payment

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