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First unit was produced in 1940.

It had 135hp.

One of the later models was owned by Elvis Presley.

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Staying the Course - 1942 Cadillac Series 62 | The Online Automotive Marketplace | Hemmings, The World’s Largest Collector Car Marketplace

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Cadillac had quite the shake-up for the 1941 model year, though nothing like the seismic events that would unfold in the Pacific that December. Cadillac readopted its “one marque, one engine” policy as it had before the junior-Cadillac La Salle marque arrived in 1927. At the end of 1940, GM dropped the La Salle marque…

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The Anti-Aircraft Gun (for kids) fired functioning missiles.
The Wooden Boxcar Racer for Six could move like a real car and was child sized.
The Red Ryder BB Gun was inspired by a character commonly seen in comics.

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Years ago, at a friend’s 50th birthday party, I gave him a Red Ryder 50th Anniversary, special edition BB rifle. Despite his being showered with a variety

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His wife did most of his Presidental campaigning for him.
He introduced the New Deal and ended the Great Depression.
He served four terms, dying at the start of his fourth, and was the president through 1933-1945.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Achievements | Britannica

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List of some of the major achievements of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States. During the Great Depression he used his powers to create jobs and to help millions of Americans in need. During World War II he showed decisive leadership as commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces.

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The director was only 24 when he made one of the greatest movies of its time.
Companies tried to suppress the movie due to its grim portrayals.
Now considered one of the greatest movies ever, it was booed at the Academy Awards.

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Citizen Kane, American film drama, released in 1941, that was directed, produced, and cowritten by Orson Welles, who also starred in the lead role. Citizen Kane is acclaimed by many critics as the greatest movie ever made. As a landmark work in the history of cinema, it ranks among the few films ever produced for which a remake, in the opinion of most critics, is all but unthinkable.

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane Courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures, a division of RKO General; photograph from the Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive, New York

Welles's much-analyzed drama centres on the rise and fall of a publishing magnate, Charles Foster Kane, who closely resembles William Randolph Hearst. (Hearst fought the film's production from the start, and, when he was unsuccessful in his efforts to ban the film outright, he reportedly barred mention of it in his newspapers.) The mystery in the film surrounding the word "Rosebud," which, it is revealed, is the name of the beloved sled of Kane's childhood, made that word famous around the world and gave it a cultural significance well beyond the realm of cinema.

Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in Citizen Kane© 1941 RKO Radio Pictures Inc.; photograph from a private collection

Welles was only 25 years old when he produced the film, and the movie's groundbreaking techniques under his direction-primarily the innovative lighting and focusing methods of cinematographer Gregg Toland and the dramatic editing style of Robert Wise-continue to influence filmmakers today. The film also benefited from an equally acclaimed supporting cast, many of whom worked on Welles's famed radio show Mercury Theatre on the Air as well.

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Citizen Kane, American film drama, released in 1941, that was directed, produced, and cowritten by Orson Welles, who also starred in the lead role. A landmark work in the history of cinema, Citizen Kane is acclaimed by many critics as the greatest movie ever made.

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Bing Crosby revolutionized Christmas music with hits like “White Christmas”
Frank Sinatra recorded around 1,000 songs throughout his career
Billie Holiday won four Grammys for the Best Historical Album.

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The 1940s were the decade of the crooner. Such household names as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como all made a very good living in the decade.

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong dominated the jazz scene. Click below to browse through the artists or the songs that made everyone swing!

People listened to music on the radio mostly, but phonograph players were just started to get affordable for the average family.

Did you know that some people had huge, car-battery sized batteries to power their radio for months on end because they didn't have electricity in their house yet?

Radio stations censored a lot of music that we enjoy listening to know that came out in the 1940s. And there was a boycott that made radio stations move almost entirely to talk format. It was a rough decade for the music industry indeed.

But there was so much great swing, jazz and everything in between. We're very happy we don't have to deal with censorship keeping us from the good stuff nowadays.

Songs from the 1940s are extremely romantic, sometimes funny and usually somehow connected back to home. Many Americans were away from home, at war, and loved listening to music that reminded them of home.

Bob Hope was also a huge star in the 1940s, frequently entertaining the troops overseas.

Like everything else, music in the 1940s was centered around the World War II.

There were several technological advances in recording and playback, however. Music lovers were treated with far superior fidelity than ever before.

Also, home phonograph prices dropped substantially, giving listeners the power to choose what they listened to, instead of giving full control to the local D.J.

Some other famous musical names from the 1940s include Perry Como, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Nat King Cole and many other legends.

Music in 1941

There was little doubt that the 1940s were witnessing a renaissance of music. The growing interest and faith in American music, along with the eagerness of large orchestras, opera companies and smaller ensembles to play native music encouraged production beyond any other single period in US history.

Unfortunately, popular music didn't share the same success as its classical counterparts. Radio's boycott of the ASCAP went into effect on January 1 and from then on all activity was political rather than musical.

Judged by sales of sheet music, the song of the year was a revival: Intermezzo. it was the only song to reach a total of half a million copies.

its nearest rival in popularity was the fox-trot version of Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto known as "Tonight We Love."

According to Variety, other popular songs in 1941 were:

Amapola

Daddy, Do You Care?

Hutsut Song

I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire

I Hear A Rhapsody

You and I

You Are My Sunshine

In the last few weeks of 1941 "The White Cliffs of Dover" suddenly developed into a huge hit and promised shortly to outperform all other songs in 1941.

An outbreak of war songs broke out with the declaration of more serious hostilities, but "God Bless America" held its own in the patriotic field.

Musical comedy enjoyed some success with Pal Joey, Let's Face It and Lady in the Dark.

Music in 1949

"Some Enchanted Evening," sung by Ezio Pinza in South Pacific, was the most popular song of the year, according to the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, which presented it for more than 20 successive weeks, heading the program 13 times.

Actually there were better songs than this in the Rodgers-Hammerstein score; three of them, "A Wonderful Guy," "Bali Ha'i" and "Younger Than Springtime," received adequate recognition from radio's high tribunal.

Unquestionably Kiss Me, Kate contained the best songs and music ever written by Cole Porter. "So in Love" appeared a dozen times on the Hit Parade and was definitely the most popular number in the show, although such songs as "The Life I Late Have Led," "Always True to You in My Fashion" and "Too Darn Hot" were also popular.

Miss Liberty, which pleased the public more than the critics, had two songs in the Hit Parade, "Just One Way to Say I Love You" and "Let's Take an Old-fashioned Walk"; but there were other numbers fully up to the Irving Berlin standard, including the plaintive "Homework."

The top song of 1948, "Buttons and Bows" held its own well into 1949, as did the two Loesser hits, "My Darling, My Darling" and "On a Slow Boat to China."

Most of the popular songs were definitely reminiscent of earlier music, particularly "Far Away Places" and "Cruising Down the River."

"Powder Your Face with Sunshine" had some individuality, but there was nothing particularly distinctive about "A Little Bird Told Me," "Again," "A Room Full of Roses," " You're Breaking My Heart," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Don't Cry Joe " and "I Can Dream, Can't I ?," all of which reached the top of the Lucky Strike list more than once.

The humorous "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was handicapped by radio censorship. Late in the year a line by Stephen Foster suggested the currently successful "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," and Christmas brought the year's real novelty in "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

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The 1940s were the decade of the crooner. Such household names as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como all made a very good living in the decade. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong dominated the jazz scene. Click below to browse through the artists or the songs that made everyone swing!