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How Much Goods Cost in 1943
Average Cost of new house $3,600.00 Average wages per year $2,000.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas 15 cents Average Cost for house rent $40.00 per month Bottle Coca Cola 5 cents Average Price for a new car $900.00

What Events Happened in 1943?
➢ Great Depression ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast, due to World War II-related employment ➢ The Works Progress Administration ( PWA ) designed to provide jobs during the Great Depression of the 1930's is ended. ➢ Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C is Completed ➢ Due to shortages in Copper the U.S. one-cent coin is struck in steel ➢ Montana Coal and Iron Company Explosion Kills 74 ➢ Bengal, India famine leaving up to 3 million dead- More resentment at the British. Ghandi is leading many Indians towards goal of independence ➢ Lebanon Gains Independence From France ➢ "Pay As You Go tax" introduced in US ➢ Car Tax Registration introduced in US ➢ The Pentagon in Washington D.C. is Completed ➢ In the United States, it is announced that rationing for canned food, meat, cheese,butter and cooking oils will go into effect (gasoline saving encouraged-→) ➢ German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. ➢ German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. ➢ Mussolini Resigns in Italy (but consolidates his forces in the north) ➢ Budapest more than 2,000 citizens sent to Concentration Camps ➢ America takes control of Guadalcanal ➢ The Allied leaders of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union meet for the first time in Iran ➢ The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Sqdn on 17th May on German dams ➢ Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising against the Nazi's ➢ The British and Americans bomb Hamburg on July 24th causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. ➢ Future President Lt. John F. Kennedy's command the PT-109 is sunk by a Japanese destroyer ➢ US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme Allied commander