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Sunday, November 18, 1945
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The Headlines
U.S. Unit for UNO Framed To Merge Reflected Activities; Wallace Aide's Blueprint for Mobilizing All Agencies Involved Will Go to Truman-- Stettinius Likely to Head Executive U.S. UNIT FOR UNO SHAPED IN CAPITAL Make-up of Committee Influential Groups Approve
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
It's Been a Long, Long Time
Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen
The must-have
Slinky (Gimbels Demo)
You Share a Birthday With
- Margaret Atwood (1939)
- Louis Daguerre (1787)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786)
- Patrick Blackett (1897)
- Mahinda Rajapaksa (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
29,419 days ago
(80 years, 219 days)