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On the date
Saturday, January 19, 1946
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT IN PLEA; Warns Reconversion Will Be Upset, Asks Steel Men to Reconsider EACH SIDE BLAMES OTHER Fairless Says 18.5-Cent Rise Would Cripple Industry--CIO Charges Big Business Plot
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I Can't Begin to Tell You
Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallaro
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
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
29,357 days ago
(80 years, 157 days)