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Friday, October 18, 1946
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The Headlines
OPA Lifts Coffee Controls; Denies Plan to Free Rentals; Anderson Ends All Restrictions on Feed Grains and Decontrol Is Sought by the Flour and Radio Set Industries
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
29,085 days ago
(79 years, 250 days)