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Thursday, June 20, 1946
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The Headlines
SOVIET ATOMIC PLAN BANS USING OR RETAINING BOMBS AND KEEPS BIG-POWER VETO; WOULD END WEAPON Gromyko Asks Assent to Scrap It 3 Months After Pact Approval BARUCH PROGRAM IGNORED Curbs to Bind All Countries Implied in Drastic Statute-- Other Nations Back Us Veto's Retention Stressed Two Committees Proposed Soviet Atomic Plan Bans Using or Retaining Bombs Baruch Defers Comment Gromyko Points to a Choice Would Adhere to Charter
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Dinah Shore
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Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Jacques Offenbach (1819)
- Martin Landau (1928)
- Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928)
- Errol Flynn (1909)
- Sigismund III Vasa (1566)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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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
29,205 days ago
(80 years, 5 days)