From the day
On the date
Monday, August 12, 1946
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The Headlines
374 Complaints Allege GI's Misuse Surplus Priorities; WAA Says Scarcities Have Resulted in Use of Many Veterans as 'Fronts'--Sales Investigations Mount to 1,200
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
To Each His Own
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Night and Day
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
29,153 days ago
(79 years, 318 days)