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Sunday, June 9, 1946
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The Headlines
BREAD TO RISE CENT A LOAF THIS WEEK; UP 20 P.C. IN JUNE; OPA to Allow Higher Ceiling to Compensate Bakers for Losses in Output Slash FOLLOWS 10% WEIGHT CUT Stores Here Ration Supplies-- La Guardia Says Relief Grain Picture Is 'Hopeful'
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
Dinah Shore
#1 at the box office
Two Sisters from Boston
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Bertha von Suttner (1843)
- Eric Hobsbawm (1917)
- George Stephenson (1781)
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640)
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
29,216 days ago
(80 years, 16 days)