From the day
On the date
Saturday, September 14, 1946
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The Headlines
Drivers' Outlaw Walkout Affects 375 Large Stores; 1,000 of 1,700 United Parcel Delivery Men Quit, Demanding Pay for Time Lost as Result of General Trucking Strike
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Five Minutes More
Frank Sinatra
#1 at the box office
Notorious
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769)
- Francisco de Quevedo (1580)
- Renzo Piano (1937)
- Margaret Sanger (1879)
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486)
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
29,119 days ago
(79 years, 284 days)