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Tuesday, June 11, 1946
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The Headlines
HIGH COURT HOLDS 'BIG THREE' A TRUST IN CIGARETTE FIELD; Justices, 6 to 0, Back Fining of R. J. Reynolds, American and Liggett & Myers 'POWER' TO EXCLUDE FOUND Need Not Show Actual Forcing Out of Competition, Burton Says in Main Opinion Punishment an Open Question End of Six-Year Legal Battle HIGH COURT AGREES ON CIGARETTE TRUST
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
- Yasunari Kawabata (1899)
- Gene Wilder (1933)
- Jacques Cousteau (1910)
- Richard Strauss (1864)
- Ben Jonson (1572)
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
29,214 days ago
(80 years, 14 days)