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Thursday, October 10, 1946

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The Headlines

EMERGENCY ACTION ON MEAT SEEN IN WHITE HOUSE TALKS; CITY SUPPLY RISES SLIGHTLY; QUICK MOVE HINTED Mead, After Phone Talk With Truman, Voices Hope of Prompt Steps HANNEGAN IS AT PARLEY Form of Action Apparently Only Issue--Pepper Suggests End of Price Controls Mead Emphasizes "Now" Announcement by Ross WHITE HOUSE TALK HINTS MEAT ACTION

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Five Minutes More

Frank Sinatra

The must-have

Tonka Trucks

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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Gi

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Bobby Soxer

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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

29,093 days ago

(79 years, 258 days)