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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
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
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
29,176 days ago
(79 years, 341 days)