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Tuesday, January 6, 1948
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The Headlines
OIL DELIVERY GAINS IN CITY AS U.S. ACTS TO EASE SHORTAGE; Dealers Getting Fuel to Homes Here -- Maritime Officials Summon Tanker Men
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Too Fat Polka
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Captain from Castile
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Joan of Arc (1412)
- Kahlil Gibran (1883)
- Kim Dae-jung (1924)
- Carl Sandburg (1878)
- Adriano Celentano (1938)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Long-Playing Record (LP), Velcro & Holography Theory.
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
28,640 days ago
(78 years, 170 days)