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Thursday, August 28, 1947
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The Headlines
Britain Imposes War Curbs On Food, Motoring, Travel; Restaurant Meals Reduced to New Low -- Meat and Other Food Rations Slashed -- Snyder Denies Loan Term Revision BRITAIN IMPOSES CURBS OF WARTIME
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Near You
Francis Craig and His Orchestra with Bob Lamm
#1 at the box office
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Paul Martin (1938)
- Jack Kirby (1917)
- Godfrey Hounsfield (1919)
- C. Wright Mills (1916)
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
28,771 days ago
(78 years, 301 days)