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On the date
Monday, February 16, 1948
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The Headlines
Austria Seeks Soviet Cut Of $50,000,000 in Claims; Austria Will Ask Moscow to Cut Claims on Plants by $50,000,000
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
Art Mooney and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
To the Ends of the Earth
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Kim Jong Il (1941)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- Francis Galton (1822)
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
28,599 days ago
(78 years, 129 days)