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On the date
Thursday, August 22, 1946
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The Headlines
CHINA REDS ROUTED IN COUNTER-ATTACK; Dispatches Say Communists Are in Full Retreat Along Vital Lung-Hai Railway
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
To Each His Own
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Notorious
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Deng Xiaoping (1904)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Ray Bradbury (1920)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
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
29,142 days ago
(79 years, 307 days)