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Wednesday, March 27, 1946
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The Headlines
PARIS URGES ALLIES TO BAN OIL TO SPAIN; French, Asking Sanctions, Also Say They Will Not Take Case of Franco to UNO Now French Urge Oil Embargo for Spain Note from Spain Studied Here British Rejection Foreseen
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Oh! What It Seemed to Be
Frank Sinatra
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845)
- James Callaghan (1912)
- Gloria Swanson (1899)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886)
- Eisaku Satō (1901)
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
29,290 days ago
(80 years, 90 days)