Wednesday, April 9, 1947

From the day

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The Headlines

U. S. Airline Wins Entry Into Finland

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Heartaches

Ted Weems and His Orchestra with Elmo Tanner

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Tonka Trucks

On This Day

• United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.

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• The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.

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• The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Charles Baudelaire (1821)
• Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
• Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
• Hugh Hefner (1926)
• Elias Lönnrot (1802)

Slang

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)