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Tuesday, May 21, 1946
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The Headlines
Hoover Asks New Aid Unit, End of World Food Charity; Urges Change in September HOOVER URGES END OF CHARITY IN FOOD Reports La Guardia Approval Not "Ninety-Day" Crisis
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The Gypsy
The Ink Spots
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The Blue Dahlia
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Tonka Trucks
On This Day
Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Albrecht Dürer (1471)
- Andrei Sakharov (1921)
- Philip II of Spain (1527)
- Mary Robinson (1944)
- Willem Einthoven (1860)
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
29,235 days ago
(80 years, 35 days)