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Sunday, January 27, 1946
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The Headlines
18 UNIONS ACCEPT; About 1,250,000 Railway Workers Agree WithRoads on MediationBOTH SIDES ARE JUBILANT National Board Hails Result, but Trainmen and EngineersStand on Strike Talk
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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
You Share a Birthday With
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
- Lewis Carroll (1832)
- Wilhelm II (1859)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775)
- Abbas the Great (1571)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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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
29,349 days ago
(80 years, 149 days)