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On the date
Sunday, November 10, 1946
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The Headlines
CLAUS A. SPRECKELS DIES IN PARIS AT 88; Retired Chairman of Federal Sugar, One-Time Secretary of All Spreckels Companies
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
On This Day
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Friedrich Schiller (1759)
- Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919)
- Ennio Morricone (1928)
- Richard Burton (1925)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Gi
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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
29,062 days ago
(79 years, 227 days)