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Sunday, April 18, 1948

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The Headlines

SOVIET LIFTS CURB ON VIENNA ROADS; Allows Traffic to Airfields to Pass Blocks -- Western Powers Puzzled by Move SOVIET LIFTS CURB ON VIENNA ROADS

Read in The New York Times →

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Now Is the Hour

Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Choir

The must-have

Scrabble

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

28,538 days ago

(78 years, 68 days)