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Friday, June 25, 1948
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The Headlines
CLAY DECLARES U.S. WON'T QUIT BERLIN SHORT OF WARFARE; But Military Sources Imply West May Go if Germans Suffer Under Soviet Curb TENSION IN CITY MOUNTS British Stop Ruhr Shipments to Russians as Latter Cut Electricity and Milk Supply CLAY DECLARES U.S. WON'T QUIT BERLIN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Can't Be True, Dear
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
The Emperor Waltz
The must-have
Scrabble
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
28,469 days ago
(77 years, 364 days)