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On the date
Wednesday, April 21, 1948
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The Headlines
U.S. TRUSTEE PLAN FOR PALESTINE GETS COOL U.N. GREETING; New Zealand, Australia, Russia Back Partition in Assembly -- China for Our Program U.S. TRUSTEE PLAN RECEIVED COOLLY
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
On This Day
United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Elizabeth II (1926)
- Max Weber (1864)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816)
- Anthony Quinn (1915)
- Percy Williams Bridgman (1882)
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
28,535 days ago
(78 years, 65 days)