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### *POP*Culture: 1940

**ICONS:** Mount Rushmore, World War II, Mach 1
                          - Marvel Comics introduces superhero Captain America in March 1941.
                          - After approximately 14 years, carving at Mount Rushmore concludes in October 1941.
                          - Diarist Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Achterhuis" on July 6, 1942, in Amsterdam.
                          - Walt Disney wins a 1943 Academy Award for his animated short film  Der Fuehrer's Face .
                          - Band leader Alton Glenn Miller disappears while enroute to Paris, France, December 15, 1944.
                          - Department stores begin selling Tupperware® in 1946.
                          - Charles Yeager becomes the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 ft.
                          - NASCAR® holds its first modified stock car race in Daytona Beach, FL, in 1948.
                          - George Orwell publishes  Nineteen Eighty-Four  in 1949.

| The 1940 Census     |   | 10 Largest Urban Places |
|---------------------|--------|-------------------------|
| 132,164,569         |
| 37.2                | 1      | New York City, NY       | 7,454,995 |
| 7.3                 | 2      | Chicago, IL             | 3,396,808 |
| April 1             | 3      | Philadelphia, PA        | 1,931,334 |
| 48                  | 4      | Detroit, MI             | 1,623,452 |
| $67,527,000         | 5      | Los Angeles, CA         | 1,504,277 |
| 51.1                | 6      | Cleveland, OH           | 878,336 |
| 58,400              | 7      | Baltimore, MD           | 859,100 |
| 123,069             | 8      | St. Louis, MO           | 816,048 |
| William Lane Austin | 9      | Boston, MA              | 770,816 |
| 34                  | 10     | Pittsburgh, PA          | 671,659 |
| 16                  |

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