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The 1950s were a decade characterized by a massive boom in consumer optimism and a collective obsession with the upcoming space age. With the rapid expansion of plastics, television, and household ...

The 1950s were America's most optimistic decade. The war was won, the economy was booming, and the atom had been split, which meant, in the popular imagination, that anything was possible. Scientists, ...