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Friday, July 19, 1946

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The Headlines

TWO IN HOUSE ASK TO GIVE TESTIMONY AT PROFIT HEARING; Mead Committee Will Resume Today With McCormack and Sabath on Stand DICKSTEIN COMING LATER Investigating Counsel Reports New Evidence Has Been Found in the Inquiry Calls From Members Told Dickstein to Appear Later War Profit Hearing to Reopen As Two in House Ask to Testify New Evidence Reported

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Prisoner of Love

Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra

The must-have

Tonka Trucks

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1946

  • It's a Wonderful Life

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

29,176 days ago

(79 years, 341 days)