From the day
On the date
Saturday, May 1, 1948
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The Headlines
REPUBLICANS OFFER ATOM BILL TO AVOID TEST ON EXTENSION; Party Chiefs Reply to Truman With a Measure to Revise Tenure to June 30, 1950 FOR CHANGE IN BASIC ACT Hickenlooper Denies a Charge of Politics, but Democrats Prepare for Struggle REPUBLICANS' BILL BARS ATOMIC TEST
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
28,524 days ago
(78 years, 54 days)