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On the date
Monday, April 15, 1946
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The Headlines
U.N. SEEKS TO LEASE SPERRY SITE TILL '49; 2-Year Renewal Option Asked From RFC--Local Taxes to Remain Applicable Purchase of Land Unlikely U.N. SEEKS TO LEASE SPERRY SITE TILL '49
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Leonhard Euler (1707)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894)
- Kim Il Sung (1912)
- Émile Durkheim (1858)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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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
29,272 days ago
(80 years, 72 days)