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On the date
Thursday, December 19, 1946
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The Headlines
UNION CHIEF OFFERS TO AID STRIKE BILL; Boilermakers' Head Scores Labor's 'No' to Attempts for Sensible Legislation 5,000 Employers on List UNION CHIEF OFFERS TO AID STRIKE BILL Sanity, Intelligence Asked
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
Till the Clouds Roll By
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
Start of the First Indochina War.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Édith Piaf (1915)
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906)
- Albert A. Michelson (1852)
- Pratibha Patil (1934)
- Philip V of Spain (1683)
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
29,024 days ago
(79 years, 189 days)