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Tuesday, April 20, 1948
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The Headlines
By Winston Churchill: The Second World War; Volume I -- The Gathering Storm Book I -- From War to War INSTALLMENT 4: AIR PARITY LOST By Winston Churchill: The Second World War Volume I -- The Gathering Storm The German Short Cut -- The Labor Vote of Censure Against Air Increases -- Liberal Hostility -- My Precise Warning, Nov. 28, 1934 -- Mr. Baldwin's Contradiction -- Hitler Claims Germany Has Air Parity, March, 1935 -- Mr. Baldwin's Confession, May 22 -- The Anglo-German Naval Agreement -- Its Dangers -- The Growth of the German Army. 'MY KINSMAN' INSTALLMENT 4 - AIR PARITY LOST Book-From War to War
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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
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Napoleon III (1808)
- Joan Miró (1893)
- Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939)
- George Takei (1937)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Gi
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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
28,536 days ago
(78 years, 66 days)