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On the date
Saturday, April 24, 1948
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The Headlines
Steel Pay Increase Pressed; Prices Cut by Westinghouse; STEEL PAY RISE PUSHED BY UNION
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
The Big Clock
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Barbra Streisand (1942)
- Carl Spitteler (1845)
- Shirley MacLaine (1934)
- Philippe Pétain (1856)
- William the Silent (1533)
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
28,532 days ago
(78 years, 62 days)