Top News Stories from 1941

World Events

Population: 4.378 billion

Germany attacks the Balkans and Russia.
Japanese surprise attack on U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor brings U.S. into World War II; U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan.
The first U.S. Lend-Lease shipment of food sent to Britain.

Vice President: Henry A. Wallace

Population: 133,402,471

Roosevelt enunciates "four freedoms" in his Jan. 6 message to Congress.
Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act, giving President the power to sell, lend, and lease war supplies to other nations.

Federal spending: $13.65 billion

Federal debt $57.5 billion

Consumer Price Index: $14.7

Unemployment: 9.9%

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03

NY Yankees d. Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1)

Boston d. Detroit

Whirlaway

Wisconsin d. Washington St.

Minnesota (8-0-0)

In Citizen Kane, Orson Welles subordinates all previous technological and cinematic accomplishments to his own essentially cinematic vision. Using newly developed film stocks and a wider, faster lens, Welles pushes the boundaries of montage and mise-en-scène, as well as sound, redefining the medium.
Actress Greta Garbo retires at age 36.
Edward Hopper completes the painting Nighthawks.

Chemistry: None awarded

Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan isolate plutonium, a fuel preferable to uranium for nuclear reactors.
RCA demonstrates a new simplified electron microscope that magnifies up to 100,000 times.

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