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WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS BORN:WHEN JOE BIDEN WAS BORN:
- The atomic bomb hadn't been invented yet.
- Disney's 'Bambi' was a new film.
- Silly Putty had just come out.
- Life expectancy was less than 65 years for guys.
- You could buy a 12 oz. Pepsi for a nickel.
- FDR was president and ordered the interment of Japanese Americans.
- Most common name for a baby was Mary, James, John, or Barbara.
- Betty Grable was a big star.
- Joseph Stalin was Time Magazine Man of the Year.
- The Voice of America went on the air.
- Napalm was invented.
- The USA could build a battleship in 56 days.
- The national speed limit was 35 mph.
- Disney Studios was in the business of working with Uncle Sam to put out anti-Nazi films denouncing Hitler instead of trying to coerce little children to get sex change operations.
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- Gerald Ford was 20 years old working as a male model.
- NYC banned pinball machines to keep kids off of them.
- Balloons were used by our military to spot subs, not as flyovers from China.
- Stephen Hawking was just born (dead 5 years now).
- DDT had just come out for treating mosquitoes.
- Life expectancy was less than 65 years for guys.
- You could buy a 12 oz. Pepsi for a nickel.
- Trump was president and held the first Annual State of the Union message.
- Most common name for a baby was Mary, James, Robert, or Linda.
- Betty Grable was a big star.
- The Iron Curtain settled over Eastern Europe.
- Xerox photocopying was invented.
- Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care influences millions of new and expectant parents throughout the U.S.
- Tide, the first detergent designed for automatic clothes washing machines, introduced.
- The first electric clothes dryers were introduced.
- The Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn issues the first credit card.
- The Atomic Energy Commission is created.
- Most of the WWII wartime price controls are eliminated.
- The federal debt was $269 billion (equivalent to $4.4 trillion in 2023 dollars)