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On the date
Saturday, February 21, 1948
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The Headlines
MARSHALL CRITICAL OF CHINA BUT HOLDS U.S. AID ESSENTIAL; Her Failing Economy Must Be Bolstered Against Collapse Communists Seek, He Says
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
The Voice of the Turtle
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
NASCAR is incorporated.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Robert Mugabe (1924)
- Harald V (1937)
- W. H. Auden (1907)
- Alan Rickman (1946)
- Anaïs Nin (1903)
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
28,595 days ago
(78 years, 125 days)