From the day
On the date
Friday, February 13, 1948
Memories from that day
No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.
The Headlines
'FREEZE' OF PRICES STARTED IN BRITAIN TO CONTROL CRISIS; Cripps Also Proposes to Keep Wages at January Level for One-Month Transition CUT IN COSTS UNDER WAY Labor Is Urged to Withhold Demands While Producers Act to Lower Prices
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
To the Ends of the Earth
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766)
- William Shockley (1910)
- Georges Simenon (1903)
- Ivan Krylov (1769)
- Paul Biya (1933)
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
28,602 days ago
(78 years, 132 days)