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Friday, October 26, 1945
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The Headlines
MASS PICKETING AT AIRPORT HALTED; FLIGHTS DELAYED; Federal Mediation Aides Open Preliminary Talks With Union, American Lines FIVE MARCHERS ARRESTED Chicago and Detroit Services Upset, Company Reports-- Schedules Here Kept Up Mail Flights Carried Out MASSED PICKETING AT AIRPORT HALTED Mediation Board Assailed
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Till the End of Time
Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky (Gimbels Demo)
You Share a Birthday With
- François Mitterrand (1916)
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919)
- Georges Danton (1759)
- Bob Hoskins (1942)
- Napoleon Hill (1883)
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
29,442 days ago
(80 years, 242 days)