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Thursday, December 13, 1945

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The Headlines

U. S. Opens Drive to Smash Black Market in Clothing; FBI, Treasury and Agriculture Department Agents Join in Move Here Against Big Operators-Grand Jury Impaneled

Read in The New York Times →

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Chickery Chick

Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye with Nancy Norman, Billy Williams and the Kaye Choir

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1945

  • Who's on first?

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

29,394 days ago

(80 years, 194 days)