From the day
On the date
Thursday, March 7, 1946
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The Headlines
COMPROMISE IS UP; Tentative Agreement on Pay Before Union in Wide Poll ONE GROUP HOLDS BACK Western Electric Unit Said to Be Insisting Upon Retroactive Demand Order Not Revoked PHONE SETTLEMENT REPORTED REACHED WE Offer Is Delayed
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Personality
Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785)
- Maurice Ravel (1875)
- Tomáš Masaryk (1850)
- John Herschel (1792)
- Piet Mondrian (1872)
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
29,310 days ago
(80 years, 110 days)