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On the date
Monday, April 19, 1948
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The Headlines
3 FRENCH LEADERS POSE SOVIET ISSUE; Schuman and de Gaulle Ask End of Communist Ideology as Thorez Pleads for East
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
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- José Echegaray (1832)
- Getúlio Vargas (1882)
- Glenn T. Seaborg (1912)
- Jayne Mansfield (1933)
- Ferdinand I of Austria (1793)
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
28,537 days ago
(78 years, 67 days)