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Sunday, December 15, 1946
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The Headlines
Home Mortgages Reach 23 Billions; High Prices, GI Loans Are Factors; New Residential Financing for This Year Estimated at Eight Billions by Federal Bank Board, to Set a New High Mark
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Old Lamp-Lighter
Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye with Billy Williams
#1 at the box office
The Strange Woman
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
29,028 days ago
(79 years, 193 days)