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Tuesday, September 24, 1946

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The Headlines

GROMYKO CHARGES U.S., BRITISH TROOPS CAUSE UNEASINESS; Russian in Security Council Gets Only Poland's Support to Put Case on Agenda 'PURE PROPAGANDA' SEEN Briton Says All the World Will Detect 'Transparent' Fiction --U.S. Cool to Soviet Move

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Five Minutes More

Frank Sinatra

#1 at the box office

Notorious

The must-have

Tonka Trucks

On This Day

  • Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

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  • The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1946

  • It's a Wonderful Life

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

29,109 days ago

(79 years, 274 days)