From the day
On the date
Sunday, February 2, 1947
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The Headlines
THE YEARLING'; Comment Upon a Humble Picture and A Gaudy Way of Selling It
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Huggin' and Chalkin'
Hoagy Carmichael with the Chickadees and Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
The Jolson Story
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- James Joyce (1882)
- Ayn Rand (1905)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926)
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754)
- Pope Benedict XIII (1650)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Transistor, Polaroid Land Camera & Defibrillator.
Style of 1947
Silhouette: Cinched waist and full skirt (The New Look)
Material: Taffeta and tulle
- Gloves
- Structured hips
- Matching sets
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
28,978 days ago
(79 years, 143 days)