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Tuesday, October 8, 1946
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The Headlines
CITY REGISTRATION HEAVY ON FIRST DAY; Increase Over 1942, Last State Election Year, Is 81.8%-- Leaders Ask Big-Vote Increases in All Boroughs CITY REGISTRATION HEAVYON FIRST DAY Tables On Registration Radio Appeals Sounded The Governor Registers
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Frank Sinatra
#1 at the box office
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You Share a Birthday With
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
- Juan Perón (1895)
- Frank Herbert (1920)
- Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883)
- Zog I (1895)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Gi
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Bobby Soxer
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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
29,096 days ago
(79 years, 261 days)