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On the date
Tuesday, July 30, 1946
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The Headlines
CONFERENCE OPENS; Bidault Asks Delegates for Patient Efforts to safeguard Peace EVATT MOVES WITH SPEED Declares He Will Fight Rules That Might Submerge Views of the Small Countries
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Surrender
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
29,165 days ago
(79 years, 330 days)