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On the date
Tuesday, September 10, 1946
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The Headlines
Ample Food Forecast Here, Even if Two Chains Close; AMPLE FOOD SEEN FOR CITY'S NEEDS Luxury Items Become Scarce Milk Deliveries Near Normal
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Five Minutes More
Frank Sinatra
#1 at the box office
Notorious/ Monsieur Beaucaire
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Compton (1892)
- Karl Lagerfeld (1933)
- Pope Julius III (1487)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839)
- Georges Bataille (1897)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
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
29,123 days ago
(79 years, 288 days)