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On the date
Friday, January 25, 1946
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The Headlines
65-75 Cents Wage Floor Measure Approved by Senate Committee; WAGE FLOOR BILL GOING TO SENATE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra with Vaughn Monroe and the Norton Sisters
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
Wikipedia →The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
- Robert Boyle (1627)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
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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
29,351 days ago
(80 years, 151 days)