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On the date
Monday, May 5, 1947
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The Headlines
RAMADIER UPHELD; OUSTS FRENCH REDS FROM HIS CABINET; Deputies Vote Confidence by 360 to 186 as 60 Abstain -- Communists in Opposition REGIME IS NOW CENTRIST Socialists and Radical Replace Three Eliminated Ministers -- One Post Unfilled RAMADIER UPHELD; OUSTS FRENCH REDS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Linda
Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Buddy Clark
#1 at the box office
The Egg and I
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846)
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921)
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747)
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
28,886 days ago
(79 years, 51 days)