From the day
On the date
Thursday, November 28, 1946
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The Headlines
SENATORS AROUSED; Pro-Labor Group Warns Truman That He Must Stand Firm on Lewis NO MATTER WHAT COST IS Otherwise United States Will Show Incapacity to Govern Itself, They Declare
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Rumors Are Flying
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Undercurrent
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Engels (1820)
- William Blake (1757)
- Stefan Zweig (1881)
- Alexander Blok (1880)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908)
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
29,044 days ago
(79 years, 209 days)