30s 40s facts
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About the mid-Atlantic or transatlantic accent. It was not a natural accent; it was generally taught to actors and the upper class in north eastern American society. Many news reels from the 30s and 40s reek of it. Transatlantic accent fell out of vogue after World War 2.
Old timey radio voice from the 30s and 40s is actually a manufactured accent called Mid-Atlantic, and was taught at boarding schools as the proper way to talk that caught on as a massive fad.
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Cursive writing was invented to accommodate the limitations of the quill, and starting falling out of favor in the 30s and 40s after the invention of the ballpoint pen.
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The Mid-Atlantic accent spoken in the 30s and 40s whose "chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so"
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In the 30s and 40s the pizza company "Dr Oetker" was run by Rudolf-August Oetker, a Nazi and active member of the Waffen SS. It's suspected they used slave labor and a bronze bust of a prominent Nazi sits within the company headquarters.
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In the late 1960s, “A Christmas Story” director Bob Clark was driving to a date’s house when he happened upon a broadcast of radio personality and writer Jean Shepherd’s recollections of growing up in Indiana in the late ’30s and early ’40s.
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Why people in the 30s & 40s speak with an almost-British accent in movies and newsreels, an accent known as Mid- or Transatlantic that, rather than evolve through time was created and taught to American-English speakers around the turn of the 20th century.
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Heinz Rühmann, a German movie star from the 30s and 40s, was a favourite actor of both Adolf Hitler and Anne Frank.
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There is an album dedicated to pot and other drugs compiled from music from the 1920s, 30s and 40s
