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Sunday, October 21, 1945
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The Headlines
'BASKET' DISPUTE REVIVED IN BIDDING; SEC Settles Case After Clash of Investment Bankers Over Utility's Bonds BOND HOUSE LOSES APPEAL But Final Results of Harry Stuart's Protest Are Yet to Be Determined
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Till the End of Time
Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky (Gimbels Demo)
On This Day
In the 1945 French legislative election French women vote for the first time.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
- Nikita Mikhalkov (1945)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Meanwhile
- Post-WWII Expansion — The 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.
Time Elapsed
29,448 days ago
(80 years, 248 days)