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On the date
Wednesday, January 7, 1948
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The Headlines
MAYOR SEEKS SHIPS TO BRING OIL HERE; SEES CITY 40% SHORT; Asks Maritime Commission for 20 Tankers to Service This Area This Month and Next GOUGING DETAILS BARED 29 Westchester Dealers End Deliveries -- Lockout and Strike Charges Made MAYOR SEEKS SHIPS TO BRING OIL HERE
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Too Fat Polka
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Captain from Castile
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Millard Fillmore (1800)
- Pope Gregory XIII (1502)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858)
- Joseph Bonaparte (1768)
- Bernadette Soubirous (1844)
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
28,639 days ago
(78 years, 169 days)