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Friday, June 18, 1948
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The Headlines
3-CORNERED RACE FOR MARCANTONIO; Tammany Selects Morrissey to Oppose Representative in the 18th District 3-CORNERED RACE FOR MARCANTONIO
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Can't Be True, Dear
Ken Griffin with Jerry Wayne
#1 at the box office
Homecoming
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.
Wikipedia →Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Paul McCartney (1942)
- Thabo Mbeki (1942)
- Roger Ebert (1942)
- Jürgen Habermas (1929)
- Ivan Goncharov (1812)
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
28,476 days ago
(78 years, 6 days)