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On the date
Monday, June 10, 1946
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The Headlines
NMU GIVES OWNERS HOURS ULTIMATUM; Unless 56 a Week at Sea Are Cut Ship Workers Will Strike on Saturday, Union Says
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
- Judy Garland (1922)
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921)
- Saul Bellow (1915)
- Gustave Courbet (1819)
- E. O. Wilson (1929)
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
29,215 days ago
(80 years, 15 days)