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Wednesday, March 3, 1948
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The Headlines
Bullitt Urges $100,000,000 Arms, 'Best' General, Be Sent to China; Bullitt Urges $100,000,000 Arms, 'Best' General, Be Sent to China
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
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847)
- Georg Cantor (1845)
- William Godwin (1756)
- Ion Iliescu (1930)
- Ragnar Frisch (1895)
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
28,583 days ago
(78 years, 113 days)