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Thursday, March 25, 1948
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The Headlines
CZECH COUP IS CITEDh)0*0*0*iAS NEED FOR DRAFT; Universal Military Training Is Strongly Urged and Denounced Before Senate Committee
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
Sitting Pretty
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Elton John (1947)
- Aretha Franklin (1942)
- Béla Bartók (1881)
- Catherine of Siena (1347)
- Norman Borlaug (1914)
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
28,561 days ago
(78 years, 91 days)