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On the date
Friday, November 8, 1946
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The Headlines
MAYOR SET TO BALK TRANSIT WALKOUT; POLICE PLANS MADE; He Sends Word From Ranch in California He Will Not Tolerate a Stoppage WORKERS BACK LEADERS Agree to Meeting Next Week to Vote on Strike--Quill Sees Murray in Capital
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Rumors Are Flying
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Two Years Before the Mast
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Alain Delon (1935)
- Bram Stoker (1847)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900)
- Edmond Halley (1656)
- Gottlob Frege (1848)
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
29,064 days ago
(79 years, 229 days)