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Friday, July 26, 1946
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The Headlines
OPA Rents Are Restored, New Price Rules Drafted; Proclamation Revives June 30 Ceilings and Voids Pay-Period Changes--Agency Completing 142 Other Decrees OPA RE-INSTITUTES ITS RENT CEILINGS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
Dinah Shore
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
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
29,169 days ago
(79 years, 334 days)