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Wednesday, February 25, 1948
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The Headlines
Wallace Accuses Truman Of Leading to Russian War; He Calls at House Hearing for 'New Faces' in the Executive Branch to Reach Understanding With Soviet Chiefs
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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
In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.
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You Share a Birthday With
- George Harrison (1943)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841)
- Carlo Goldoni (1707)
- Lesya Ukrainka (1871)
- José de San Martín (1778)
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
28,590 days ago
(78 years, 120 days)