From the day
On the date
Monday, January 26, 1948
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The Headlines
Chairman Sees French Move As Blow to Unity in Finance; Camille Gutt Says Schuman Program Might Encourage Distortions in Financing and Cast Doubt on Other Nations' Currencies WORLD FUND HITS PARIS FRANC STEP
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Douglas MacArthur (1880)
- Paul Newman (1925)
- Angela Davis (1944)
- Charles XIV John (1763)
- Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715)
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
28,620 days ago
(78 years, 150 days)