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On the date
Tuesday, February 5, 1946
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The Headlines
YAMASHITA APPEAL DENIED, SIX TO TWO, BY SUPREME COURT; Validity of Military Trial, Called Only Question at Issue, Fully Upheld BOTH DISSENT ARE SHARP Murphy and Rutledge Declare That Guarantees Under Our Law Have Been Violated Yamashita's Appeal Is Denied, 6=2
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Betty Hutton with Paul Weston and His Orchestra
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Charlotte Rampling (1946)
- William S. Burroughs (1914)
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Robert Hofstadter (1915)
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
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
29,340 days ago
(80 years, 140 days)