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Saturday, August 17, 1946
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The Headlines
TRUMAN CONSIDERS ASKING ADMISSION OF MORE REFUGEES; Weighs Plea to Congress and Bids Other Countries Open Doors to Europe's Displaced ESCHEWS PALESTINE PLAN U.S. Has None 'of Its Own,' Statement Adds--Jewish Agency Rejects Partition
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
29,147 days ago
(79 years, 312 days)