Top National News of 1946

A dear friend, Mary Schumann, gave me a little booklet about the year 1946, for my 60th birthday, August 21. I loved reading about the way things were then, when I was brand-new and had just come into the world. The top national news in the United States: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, a civilian group, is formed by an act of Congress. The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is formed. WWII veterans, making use of the provisions of the GI Bill of Rights, head to college in record numbers. Birthrates jump to over 1.4 million in one year with the return of WWII veterans. (That was my generation, the Baby Boomers!) The United States gives the Phillipines independence. AT&T announces the first car phones. (And now it is cell phones .....You've come a long way, Baby! Whodda thunk it?) Alaskans vote in favor of statehood. The world was a very different place than today. And here I came, ready to grow up and help change the world!