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Tuesday, July 23, 1946
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The Headlines
Writer Uncurbed by 'Iron Curtain' Finds Poles Avoid Soviet Rigidity; Writer Uncurbed by 'Iron Curtain' Finds Poles Avoid Soviet Rigidity
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
Dinah Shore
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Sergio Mattarella (1941)
- Haile Selassie (1892)
- Raymond Chandler (1888)
- Pope Clement XI (1649)
- Vera Rubin (1928)
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
29,172 days ago
(79 years, 337 days)