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Friday, September 26, 1947
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The Headlines
U.S. ASKS U.N. BODY ON BALKANS PEACE; INDICTS 3 NATIONS; Acts in Political Committee to Get Salonika Observers With Drastic Powers VISHINSKY CALLS PRESS To Make Announcement This Afternoon -- Atmosphere of Crisis Is Developing STRONG UNIT ASKED FOR BALKAN PEACE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
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Life with Father
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Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Ivan Pavlov (1849)
- Manmohan Singh (1932)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Gi
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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
28,742 days ago
(78 years, 272 days)