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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
#1 at the box office
I Remember Mama
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You Share a Birthday With
- David Ricardo (1772)
- Michael D. Higgins (1941)
- James Woods (1947)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1480)
- Samuel P. Huntington (1927)
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
28,538 days ago
(78 years, 68 days)