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Saturday, February 16, 1946
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The Headlines
TIMES SQ. LIGHTS UP AS BROWNOUT ENDS; Most Signs Go On 45 Minutes Early--Stebbins Lifts the 60-Degree Heat Rule
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Kim Jong Il (1941)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- Francis Galton (1822)
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
29,329 days ago
(80 years, 129 days)