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Thursday, March 18, 1943
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The Headlines
GASOLINE RATIONS CUT BY HALF BY OPA; ALL BUSES 'FROZEN'; Pleasure Driving Ban Lifted, but Order Effective Monday Curtails All Car Use 4 MONTHS FOR 'A' COUPONS Workers to Get Supplemental Allowance -- ODT Acts to Keep School Buses on Routes GASOLINE RATIONS CUT BY HALF BY OPA
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
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Tech Check
Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
30,395 days ago
(83 years, 100 days)