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Wednesday, June 25, 1947
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The Headlines
40,000 DUE TO QUIT; Strike Slated to Begin at 12:01 A.M. in Nine East Coast Plants 12,000 TO GO OUT LOCALLY Union Head Says Only Miracle Can Avert the Walkouts at Bethlehem Steel SHIPYARDS STRIKE SLATED TOMORROW
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
Perry Como and the Satisfiers with Lloyd Shaffer and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Miracle on 34th Street
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
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