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On the date
Saturday, July 10, 1948
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The Headlines
House Group to Cite 9 Unionists For Contempt in Store Inquiry; UNION HEAD AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING HERE HOUSE GROUP VOTES TO CITE 9 LEFTISTS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Woody Woodpecker
Kay Kyser and his Orchestra with Gloria Wood
#1 at the box office
The Emperor Waltz
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Nikola Tesla (1856)
- Marcel Proust (1871)
- Mahathir Mohamad (1925)
- John Calvin (1509)
- Alice Munro (1931)
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
28,454 days ago
(77 years, 349 days)