Newsweek - USA (2020-08-14)

AUGUST 14, 2020

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A new generation was emerging after record-low population

increases in the 1930s and predictions of lower numbers to come.

Newsweek wrote, “Human nature, being just plain cussed, had simply disregard-

ed all the carefully drawn population curves, and the United States was enjoying

an unprecedented boom in babies.” From 1946 to 1964, 76 million children were

born in the U.S. They became known as baby boomers, the generation that led

the counterculture movement and helped vastly expand the economy. Now, U.S.

population growth has dwindled back down to rates similar to that of the ’30s.

1973

Newsweek reported, “The countdown

has begun for one of the most exciting

hits in baseball history...the home run that

lifts Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves

past the legendary Babe Ruth’s record of

714.” Aaron ended his Major League

Baseball career with 755, a record that

wasn’t broken until 2007 by Barry Bonds.

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1993

“Immigration is running full blast,” said

Newsweek, “and Americans once again

are asking fundamental questions about

the desirability of accepting so many

newcomers and the very idea of the

Melting Pot.” President Donald Trump

placed the still hotly contested issue of

immigration policy front and center in his

2016 presidential campaign.