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Wednesday, November 14, 1945
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The Headlines
ATTLEE IN ADDRESS TO CONGRESS ASKS WORLD UNITY IN UNO; Prime Minister Says Hope of Civilization Lies in Amity Through United Nations GIVES LABORITE PROGRAM He Declares Big Business Will Be Taken Over When It Gets Too Big--For Freedoms Attlee-Truman Talks Go On Blackout on U.S. Side ATTLEE SEES HOPE OF WORLD IN UNO
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
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889)
- Claude Monet (1840)
- Astrid Lindgren (1907)
- Park Chung Hee (1917)
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922)
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
29,423 days ago
(80 years, 223 days)