From the day
On the date
Thursday, March 11, 1948
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The Headlines
RUSSIA IS ACCUSED; Czech in U. N. Charges That Moscow Installed Regime in Prague
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and the Brazilians
#1 at the box office
Saigon
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Harold Wilson (1916)
- Torquato Tasso (1544)
- Rupert Murdoch (1931)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920)
- Urbain Le Verrier (1811)
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
28,576 days ago
(78 years, 106 days)