From the day
On the date
Sunday, February 29, 1948
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The Headlines
Russian Tide
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Now Is the Hour
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Call Northside 777
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Gioachino Rossini (1792)
- Pope Paul III (1468)
- Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940)
- Morarji Desai (1896)
- Herman Hollerith (1860)
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
28,587 days ago
(78 years, 117 days)