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Wednesday, October 2, 1946
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The Headlines
SHIP OFFICERS QUIT, PARALYZING PORT 2D TIME IN MONTH; Never Before Have Masters Been Called From Bridges --Engineers Also Strike WASHINGTON PLEAS FAIL But Efforts to Settle Dispute Over Wages and Working Conditions Are Continued
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
To Each His Own
Eddy Howard and His Orchestra with Eddy Howard and Trio
#1 at the box office
Notorious
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
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
29,102 days ago
(79 years, 267 days)