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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
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Five Minutes More
Frank Sinatra
#1 at the box office
Three Little Girls in Blue
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
29,093 days ago
(79 years, 258 days)