Both my pal and that i had been in our mid-thirties at the time the letter was written. I'd guess it was somewhere round this time your grandmother obtained her first telephone. The grandmother talked about had handed away a year or so previous to my writing. Department of Corrections: I have it on excellent authority from a reader that the Camper Stuart, mentioned yesterday, blows. In 1920 she might have heard about Congress passing the 19th Amendment, which gave women the suitable to vote for the first time, nationally. This time, Darwin ended the correspondence. Social Security was enacted in 1935. Hitler was making ready for World War II at the time, and helicopters and airplane jet engines have been invented in 1939. Radar came alongside in 1940. In 1941 penicillin first grew to become practical for widespread use, and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. In 1956 the development of the Interstate Highway System was first set into movement (it might have been one other ten years though before associated construction got here within ten miles or so of Athena herself). Around center-age, your grandmother Athena noticed tv start appearing in folks's homes. Your granny Athena was over ninety when she died, wasn't she? A way of Recent History: 1900-1980s, your granny Athena's lifetime.