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Sunday, June 20, 1948

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The Headlines

Changing Solar Energy Into Fuel 'Blocked Out' in GM Laboratories; Kettering Says Researches in Chlorophyl, Interrupted by War, May Soon Unfold Secrets of Making Coal and Oil

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

You Can't Be True, Dear

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Scrabble

On This Day

  • The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded by imposing the Berlin Blockade four days later.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

28,474 days ago

(78 years, 4 days)