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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

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#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.

    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

29,277 days ago

(80 years, 77 days)