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Friday, February 22, 1946

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The Headlines

ALP DRIVE FEARED ON CITY TAX PLAN; Legislators From Here See a Withdrawal of Party Aid if They Back O'Dwyer Program

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#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

  • The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1946

  • It's a Wonderful Life

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

29,323 days ago

(80 years, 123 days)