Independence Day, 1947

This is New York's Coney Island, crowded with an estimated 1,300,000 the first day of the long July 4 weekend. By the millions, other U.S. citizens swarmed out of their cities and headed for a holiday. Some 30,000,000 cars jockeyed for space on the roads. This week, mosquito-bitten and sunburned, Americans were back at work and the nation counted its 553 holiday dead: 163 drowned, 271 killed on the highways, 119 dead in other accidents.

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