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On the date
Thursday, July 18, 1946
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The Headlines
CHINESE REDS OPEN DRIVE ON YANGTZE; Communists' Forces Reported Close to Nanking and Only 50 Miles From Shanghai Close to Chief Cities CHINESE REDS OPEN DRIVE ON YANGTZE Secret Red Orders Seized Threat of Full-Scale War Attack on "Face" CHINESE FIGHT IN REGION OF THE CAPITAL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Prisoner of Love
Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Nelson Mandela (1918)
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
- John Glenn (1921)
- Thomas Kuhn (1922)
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
29,177 days ago
(79 years, 342 days)