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Friday, June 14, 1946
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The Headlines
SENATE VOTES OPA BILL, 53-11; WOULD END CURBS ON MEAT, EGGS, BUTTER, MILK, CHICKENS; CONTROLS RIDDLED Senate Frees Gasoline, Oil and Tobacco Before Passing Measure COST ABSORPTION ENDED Barkley Disappointed but Taft Declares Guard Against Inflation Is Retained
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
- Donald Trump (1946)
- Che Guevara (1928)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736)
- Karl Landsteiner (1868)
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
29,211 days ago
(80 years, 11 days)