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Thursday, October 17, 1946
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The Headlines
TRAINMEN READY WITH BIG VOTE FUND; Brotherhood Prepared to Spend Up to 3 Million, House Group Hears--Bars Joining CIO BIG ELECTION FUND HELD BY TRAINMEN $11,600 Spent in Primaries Busy in Thirteen Districts
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Rumors Are Flying
Frankie Carle and His Orchestra with Marjorie Hughes
#1 at the box office
No Leave, No Love
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
29,086 days ago
(79 years, 251 days)