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Saturday, July 5, 1947
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The Headlines
WARNING ON APATHY SOUNDED AS THEME OF JULY 4 IN CITY; A Nation Prepared to Meet Fully Perils in Future Held Vital to Freedom PRAYERS FOR PEACE RISE 40 Hurt as Jersey Boardwalk Collapses -- Traffic's Toll Is Heavy in Nation PERIL OF APATHY IS HOLIDAY THEME
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Peg o' My Heart
Buddy Clark
#1 at the box office
Fiesta
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
28,825 days ago
(78 years, 355 days)