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On the date
Thursday, March 4, 1948
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The Headlines
CONCILIATION MOVE IN PALESTINE URGED ON U.N. BY CANADA; Supreme Effort to Reach an Agreed Solution Is Asked -- Belgian Delay Plan Gains
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
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
- Miriam Makeba (1932)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769)
- Alpha Condé (1938)
- Prince Henry the Navigator (1394)
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
28,582 days ago
(78 years, 112 days)