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Saturday, April 13, 1946
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The Headlines
TRUMAN DEDICATES ROOSEVELT SHRINE; DECLARES HE WILL FOLLOW NEW DEAL IN BOTH FOREIGN AND HOME AFFAIRS; DIPLOMATS AND NEIGHBORS AT ROOSEVELT SHRINE TRUMAN DEDICATES ROOSEVELT SHRINE Says Principles Are Accepted Mrs. Roosevelt Recalls Trials His Spirit Lives in This House" Secretary Krug Accepts Gift
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Oh! What It Seemed to Be
Frank Sinatra
#1 at the box office
Saratoga Trunk
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
29,274 days ago
(80 years, 74 days)