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On the date
Monday, April 8, 1946
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The Headlines
INFLATION DANGER TO END BY JUNE,'47, SAY CONTROL HEADS; Only Rent Ceilings and a Few Others Should Remain by Then, States Joint Report BUT PERIL NOW IS GREAT Continuance of Curbs and Subsidies Held Essential to Bar Runaway Prices
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Oh! What It Seemed to Be
Frank Sinatra
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
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
29,278 days ago
(80 years, 78 days)