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On the date
Sunday, March 23, 1947
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The Headlines
ARMED, 3-5, BREAKS GULFSTREAM MARK; POT O'LUCK SECOND; Champion Easily Wins $30,350 Handicap as Calumet Farm Entry Runs One, Two EARNINGS REACH $482,775 Concordian Gains Show Before Record Throng of 21,878 That Bets $1,111,836 ARMED, 3-5, BREAKS GULFSTREAM MARK CALUMET CHAMPION WINNING GULFSTREAM PARK HANDICAP
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Heartaches
Ted Weems and His Orchestra with Elmo Tanner
#1 at the box office
The Best Years of Our Lives
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
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
28,930 days ago
(79 years, 95 days)