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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
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
On This Day
Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
Wikipedia →The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1911)
- İsmet İnönü (1884)
- Gerolamo Cardano (1501)
- Horace Walpole (1717)
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
29,109 days ago
(79 years, 274 days)