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On the date
Tuesday, March 2, 1948
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The Headlines
COMMONS ADOPTS DEFENSE PROGRAM; CHEERS PACT TALK; Brussels Meeting on Thursday Announced by Attlee While Arms Bill Is Debated
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
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)
- Pope Pius XII (1876)
- Pope Leo XIII (1810)
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937)
- Benedict of Nursia (480)
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
28,585 days ago
(78 years, 115 days)