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On the date
Tuesday, May 28, 1946
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The Headlines
LABOR BEGINS DRIVE ON TRUMAN CURBS; AFL and CIO Organize for a Fight to Finish--Crippling of Unions Feared in Bills
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Prisoner of Love
Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Do You Love Me
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Ian Fleming (1908)
- Patrick White (1912)
- William Pitt the Younger (1759)
- Edvard Beneš (1884)
- Bülent Ecevit (1925)
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
29,228 days ago
(80 years, 28 days)