From the day
On the date
Saturday, January 12, 1946
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The Headlines
U.S. SEIZURE HINTED; Long Lines Are Snarled as Operators Refuse to Cross Picket Lines
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Symphony
Freddy Martin and His Orchestra with Clyde Rogers
#1 at the box office
The Bells of St. Mary's
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
- Charles Perrault (1628)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Mobile Car Phones, Tupperware & Bikini.
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
29,364 days ago
(80 years, 164 days)