The Decade You Were Born - 1940s

Editorial Reviews If you were born in the 40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term … the country was isolationist … American workers got the forty hour work week … Walt Disney Studios released Fantasia and Pinocchio … Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time … and Glen Miller wrote the decade s signature song, In the Mood.