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Friday, April 30, 1948
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The Headlines
JAFFA FIGHT HALTS ON BRITISH THREAT; Zionists Bow to Ultimatum of Force -- Rivals Agree to Cease Fire, 18-Hour Truce Jaffa Fight Is Halted by Truce; Jews Bow to British Ultimatum
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and the Brazilians
#1 at the box office
State of the Union
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
- Carl XVI Gustaf (1946)
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893)
- Mary II (1662)
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
28,525 days ago
(78 years, 55 days)