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On the date
Tuesday, April 9, 1946
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The Headlines
Senate Votes $253,000,000 For Veterans Housing Cost; Fund to Provide 102,350 Temporary Units From Barracks and Dormitories--$600,000,000 Subsidy Plan Debated
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Oh! What It Seemed to Be
Frank Sinatra
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
About 500 postal workers in Tel Aviv and Jaffa went on strike.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Charles Baudelaire (1821)
- Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
- Hugh Hefner (1926)
- Elias Lönnrot (1802)
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
29,277 days ago
(80 years, 77 days)