A "March ofTime" newsreel/ the 20th Century

 

1900

76 million Americans/ Dow: 68.3

McKinley is assassinated.

1910

The sinking of the Titanic/Ragtime

Dow: 8 I.I/the War to end all wars.

1920

105 million Americans/"speakeasies"

The Great Gatsby/Dow: 381 to 230 to minus 9 (The crash)

1930

"Buddy can you spare a dime?"

New Deal/FDR

Dustbowl, the great depression

1940

Over there..

The Greatest Generation

132 million Americans

Dow: 144.8/McCarthyism

A Sentimental Journey

1950

151 million Americans/Korea

Beatnik/Ozzie&Harriet’s suburbs

Rock Around the Clock

Dow: 437.7/Roswell

1960

180 million Americans/the twist

Civil rights/Cuban missile crisis

Good vibes/strawberry fields

Good morning Vietnam/Woodstock

Dow: 914.8

King-Kennedy killings

1970

200 million Americans/Roe v. Wade

Archie bunker/Watergate

Dow: 990.1/ 8 track/disco

1980

227 million Americans/ big chill

Moral majority/Dow: 2246.7

The material girl/ Reagen shot

1990

249 million Americans/Desert Storm

"Oh well, whatever, never mind"

Impeachment/Dow: 2365.1 to 10,275.5

2000

Y2K/OK/ 275 million Americans

Chads/Dubya^O111 century ends.

2001

Good bye beaver cleaver, adlai&ike,

Sgt. pepper’s endless summer, generations

Lost in space, bye-bye Miss American pie,

Follow every rainbow until you find your dream

…A little boy salutes the nation

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Joel C. Snell